Bill the justice will be joining us in a minute, it is not a bait and switch. It is great to see you all here. And we were initially planning this event, we were originally going to have an in a smaller venue, because it is july, students are gone, faculty are mostly not around, so we figured we would not attract a large audience, we did not have to worry about that it turns out. The justice obviously has serious star power. As soon as the event was sent out, we had an enormous member of rsvps. We had to shut down the link within 24 hours. Have a satellite venue. Please come on in. Our first panel. Ruthanne, dori, and justice ginsberg. [applause] thank you so much. But sit down. Bill you are about to be treated to an Extraordinary Program that will focus on Justice Ginsburgs legacy on gender inequality in life and in the law. For our first panel you will hear a conversation between the justice and two of her former law clerks. Ruthanne and dori bernstein. They will be in conversation a
Including joel sabat, ron batory from the federal railroad administration. Ray martinez, administrator of the Safety Administration and heidi king from the national Highway Safety traffic system. The fix of the american act, better known as the fast act is responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System including fmcsa, nhtsa and fra. Todays hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the fast act. And to identify issues that this committee should consider as we prepare for a surface transportation reauthorization. The fast act established the infraGrant Program. This and others such as build grants formerly tiger grants are critical to improving our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on improving the infrastructure and how intra, and bill grants are being utilized. As they reauthorize the fast act, i plan to work with cantwell and other members on both s
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
Good morning. Todays open hearing is the fourth in a series the committee is skukting to examine the intersection of Key National Security challenges and intelligence. In our prior hags we explored the rise of authoritiarianism, russian intelligence trade craft and chinas use of technology as a actual of oppression. This morning we will look at Climate Change which is the greatest longterm it National Security threat to the u. S. And affecting every dimension of National Life for decades and possibly centuries. In the unclassified 2019 worldwide threat assessment director of National Intelligence coates submitted this finding to Senate Counterparts on behalf of the the community. Quote Global Environmental and ecoology aldid he grey graduation and Climate Change are likely to fuel competition for resources economic distress and social discontent through 2019 and beyond. Climate hazards such as extreme weather, high temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, Sea Level Rise owe s
Is the sixth incident involving a united flight since monday of last week. No one noticed the panel was missing until after the plane had landed. It had taken off from San Francisco with nearly 150 on board, and made it to medford, oregon, without any sort of issues. But nonetheless, this is alarming. Abc seven News Reporter Tara Campbell spoke with an aviation expert about whether passengers should be concerned about this friday. Another problem for a United Airlines flight involving a boeing plane, this time a flight from sfo losing an external panel. Well, heavy things fall off. Jetliners is not our favorite methodology. It is in any way, form or fashion, rare and troublesome. John nance is an abc news aviation analyst and hes referring to united flight 433, the plane taking off just before 1030 this morning, landing in medford, oregon, just before noon. Its there where crews discovered the missing panel. Did somebody fail to close something which would have been a Human Factors uh