It eroded. Transportation secretary elaine chao testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the president s 2021 budget request. During the hearing she addressed infrastructure project, highway and rail safety, investment into the nations ports and discretionary Grant Programs that impacted the needs of rural and urban areas. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Im pleased to kick off the subcommittee hearing season for this and other subcommittees by examining the fiscal year 20 21 budget request for our department of transportation. Secretary chao, welcome back and thank you for joining us. Glad to have you here. Frur serves as the foundation and quality of life. It facilitates the flow of goods and services, connects Education Opportunities and plays a significant role in our nations overall welfare. Theres no question our country requires an massive investment into bridges and restore Transportation Systems to a state of good repair, improve our ports, bui
Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
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Family in revolution mary america. And that was recently published, the university of virginia press. Cynthia kerner is a of history at george mason university. She earned her ph. D. From university of virginia and specializes the fields of early america women, gender and early southern history. She is the author or editor of eight books and numerous. In addition to being the organizations own of american historians, distinguished lecturer and the past president of Southern Association for women history science. Throughout her distinguished career, dr. Kirchners research has been supported by the american historical association, the virginia historical, the library company, philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society and the National Endowment for the humanities. But before i turn things over to dr. Kerner, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us virtually on zoom this evening. Following tonights authors talk, there will be a question and answer s
Family in revolution mary america. And that was recently published, the university of virginia press. Cynthia kerner is a of history at george mason university. She earned her ph. D. From university of virginia and specializes the fields of early america women, gender and early southern history. She is the author or editor of eight books and numerous. In addition to being the organizations own of american historians, distinguished lecturer and the past president of Southern Association for women history science. Throughout her distinguished career, dr. Kirchners research has been supported by the american historical association, the virginia historical, the library company, philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society and the National Endowment for the humanities. But before i turn things over to dr. Kerner, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us virtually on zoom this evening. Following tonights authors talk, there will be a question and answer s