Thank you all for coming. Welcome to infrastructure week. We have been looking forward to this for a while. Infrastructure was a thing that all pundits after the election when we are in the fractured state after the 2016 election, democrats and republicans, will they be able to work on anything . People said infrastructure. Why . Democrats like spending money and donald trump likes having things build. He sees himself as a builder. So, we were supposed to get something. We have not gotten something yet. Policy proves more complicated in practice than in promise. That is the complexity of this. That is why we assembled the excellent panel we have today. Anybody who follows staff about transportation infrastructure, the way cities work follows nicole. She is a senior fellow at the manhattan then we have nick of the heritage foundation. He is an economist. He is a Deputy Director of the thomas road to toot for Economic Policy studies. And finally we have Heritage Action tim chapman. He is
So a comment that i want to meet im really sick and tired of people kind of comparing like forcing women to compared to mens pay even though thats they were going to form quality but its kind of like women are against men in our federation and i dont think thats the case at all and i think like having having what he just said about the prices of the tickets shows that theres interest in the game so theres interest in the game that entered into money and i think like in turn goes to paying the women in terms of contracts like i was i think i mentioned before that norway i think there are now equal pay in terms of their federations i believe so the men and women are getting paid exactly the same that is new and theres been a lot of talk along the way from all fires all the way to the world cup where a lot of other federations have it dont slack i need to make. We didnt have contracts before and were working out contracts now but we have weve signed contracts and weve got to be im not say
The secretary responded to questions about transportation grants to kentucky, the home state of her husband, tenant majority leader mitch mcconnell. Thank you all for coming. Welcome to infrastructure week. We have been looking forward to this for a while. Infrastructure was a thing that all pundits after the election when we are in the fractured state after the 2016 election, democrats and republicans, will they be able to work on anything . People said infrastructure. Why . Democrats like spending money and donald trump likes having things build. He sees himself as a builder. So, we were supposed to get something. We have not gotten something yet. Policy proves more complicated in practice than in promise. That is the complexity of this. That is why we assembled the excellent panel we have today. Anybody who follows staff about transportation infrastructure, the way cities work follows nicole. She is a senior fellow at the manhattan then we have nick of the heritage foundation. He is
Qatar before it happened question on or about may 20th 2017 there was apparently a private dinner that was hosted between Steve Bannon Jared cushion or in the rulers of saudi arabia and u. A. E. Respectively were you aware of that dinner answer no question that wasnt something you would heard previously answer no question and to clarify sir not prior to when i just said it answer correct question whats your reaction to a meeting of that sort having taken place without your knowledge and sir it makes me angry here in washington the revelation of dueling Foreign Policy is one please seen as a diplomatic debacle Foreign Policy run as a Family Business with the agency in charge of diplomacy often sidelined it since that suggests that its totally chaotic why for example would you appoint a secretary of state because thats a trouble point not a holdover from obama. Where you are so distrustful of your own appointee that you shield him out of the decisions trump until is in had a tempestuous
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