Present. Thank you. Mr. Hursh . Present. Lipkin present. Tavares is absent. Vice chair gee present and madame chair present. Directors, you do have a quorum. Go ahead and call the next item. Sure. Directors, the next item, item 3 is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process which has changed slightly from the last meeting. Members should dial into the published number, 408 4189388 and enter access code, 1466334383, press pound and then pound again. Listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. At which time, members would have up to three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. They would get into the queue for a particular item by pressing star 3. I will announce Public Comment on each item and or for general Public Comment. And that is when callers will dial star 3. It will show their hand is raised and theyll be added to the queue and called on. Lets see. Callers will remain muted until their line is ope
This hearing to the call of the chair. But its my intention to have d. P. H. Back at one of our two july meetings, because i would like to have more of that detail and maybe some dollar figures attached. And i do have at least a couple of additional questions about the you know, the results of the bed study, for example, you know, how does that proposed increase in funding relate to the existing d. P. H. Budget for beds . Because my understanding is the existing budget for beds does not actually account for all of the beds we buy over the course of a year. So if were adding 10 million to a budget that already doesnt account for for the beds that we need to buy over the course of the year, im not sure thats guaranteed well be making progress toward the number of beds that we need. Anyway, maybe somebody can explain to me that aspect of the budgeting and maybe we can have craig wagner talk to us about that. And im wondering how the bed study relates to the beds we dont use. We know we ha
Thank you. Mr. Hursh . Present. Lipkin present. Tavares is absent. Vice chair gee present and madame chair present. Directors, you do have a quorum. Go ahead and call the next item. Sure. Directors, the next item, item 3 is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process which has changed slightly from the last meeting. Members should dial into the published number, 408 4189388 and enter access code, 1466334383, press pound and then pound again. Listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. At which time, members would have up to three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. They would get into the queue for a particular item by pressing star 3. I will announce Public Comment on each item and or for general Public Comment. And that is when callers will dial star 3. It will show their hand is raised and theyll be added to the queue and called on. Lets see. Callers will remain muted until their line is open. Automa
To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation policy. Its valuable in our efforts to pass the act, which was the first longterm highway bill in a decade, and were going to continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations surface Transportation System still needs additional investments. Enacting a long Term Solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to insuring we can address those needs long into the future. Since passage of the f. A. S. T. Act, building a con
Committee examined executive branch nominations. At a senate hearing, witnesses from the trucking and shipping industry talked about the importance of freight to the u. S. Economy and the infrastructure needs of the u. S. Highways, courts and waterways. Senator and half chairs this environment and public works subcommittee. This is one hour 30 minutes. The meeting will come to order. We are honored to have some great Witnesses Today and i will save the introductions. I know there are a couple introductions that would be made from up here. This morning ill go ahead with Opening Statements were honored to have the chairman of the raking member. Then i understand senator cardin you have an instruction to make also. Will do that. Lets recognize first senator carper because he is going to be coming back and doing his a little bit later. Very briefly, welcome to the support hearing and i want to thank our chair and Ranking Member for putting this all together. I have a statement by the act t