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Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im katty kay in washington and this is bbc world news america. How to fight the pandemic china embarks on testing an entire city in just days and we will be live in sweden to find out if that countrys controversial approach was the right one. Confirmation hearings begin for u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett is the controversy surrounding her legal, political, religious or all three . We report from the devastated region of nagornokarabakh as a ceasefire comes under pressure. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. As the u. S. And u. K. Struggled to test even a fraction of their populations, china today embarks on the ambitiousoal of testing an entire city this week. They launched an Aggressive Campaign after just a hanul of new cases were disc
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im katty kay in washington and this is bbc world news america. How to fight the pandemic china embarks on testing an entire city in just fi days and we will be live in sweden to find out if that countrys controversial approach was the right one. Confirmation hearings begin for u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett is the controversy surrounding her legal, political, religious or all three . We report from the devastated region of nagornokarabakh as a ceasefire comes under pressure. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. As the u. S. And u. K. Struggled to test even a fraction of their populations, china today embarks on the ambitious goal of testing an entire city this week. They launched an Aggressive Campaign after just a hanul of new cases were
People every day. Reject their new contract and create new legislation to defund thank you. Thank you, maam, for your comments. All right. We have 29 listeners and 12 speakers in the queue. Operations, lets hear from the next caller caller tonight im calling like so many of the other callers to object to the murderous, officials, and oppressive policing in this city, especially i wish we could change it. I dont exactly know the framework to have that conversation, but i know that our resources are misallocated and we have the resources to suppress a protest, but not see the future. When our food banks are begging for food and our nurses are begging for food and yet the police discussions of their vastly bloated budget to murderously oppress us are to be held behind closed doors. The discussion should be public. It should be our right as citizens to participate in is being renegotiated for three years behind closed doors . That alone is objectionable thank you for your comment. Operatio