Its international, but its also big time national. I think youre characterization of it is correct, senator. Its a huge feature of our work. In all of our field offices, we work in 70some task forces to try to address it. We work internationally to try and address it, so its a big feature in our life. We are trying to make sure we send a message that there are huge costs to doing this in the United States. Were focused on the individuals. You allude to the challenge with internet sites. Thats a challenge for us. Obviously, we have a wonderful country with a First Amendment that protects peoples ability to create sites. Were trying to focus on the individuals who may be operating a site with purposes of trafficking and lock them up for a long period of time and were doing that all over the country. Have you had any success . Oh, yeah. We sure have. Could we learn more about that . Not now. Id appreciate sitting down with you. According to the Government Accountability office, the famous
Epitome of the pure partnership. Its the most important event of the year for transportation, and it represents a group of people that go off and do their own business separately, but here theyre partners for the greater good of the overall. Were very excited to be a part of this. We would like to think that we can help in any way we can, but we hope to get to work with all you guys for the next two days and learn a little bit about where things are going, and hopefully make some impact for the greater good of the whole industry. So with that in mind, i have a couple things. One, dont forget while youre here that the purpose of this event, and it reads to direct the industrys advocacy efforts and legislative strategy. The key words i saw there were the advocacy, so everyone here is an advocate. And second is that youre doing it for the industry. And so please look out for your cohorts, your friends, the other guys who couldnt be here. Dont forget the rural folks who dont get to come to
So when you do those conversations that leave you scratching your head a little bit. What are you asking for . What could washington do to make this easier for you . Short of comprehensive . I dont know. Short of comprehensive reform what they can do. President obama has chosen that course and we can agree or disagree with it, but hes not saying as the rest of us arent saying we dont need a comprehensive solution because when you pick up pieces like Border Security and dealing with health care and dealing with the dreamers. Youre still leading a big segment of the population in the communities today unaddressed in terms of their status and in terms of their contributions to our community and their feeling of being part of our community and for all of us in cities we want our residents to feel like theyre in a secure place. All right. We have a question over here. Yeah . Quick question. Ive been a School Principal for many, many years and what weve done when other students are coming fr
At a great, great session already this morning, 7 30 a. M. Who was in there eating breakfast . All right. Welcome to aptas 40th annual legislative conference and our Nations Capital. Yesterday was some great sessions, werent they with the mayor of washington d. C. And some great speakers and thank you all for being here. The conference comes at a momentous time in the industry. We have a lot of things to do this week. We are gearing up for a new surface transportation bill out there. This opening session really set the stage for our discussions over the next few days. In this session, oh well we will hear from the ceo and janet kovanecki with the u. S. Chamber of commerce and pete bruahmn. Our sponsor this morning is ralk fmatch. Help me welcome joseph hills Vice President for Business Development who will share some comments on stage. [applause] thank you, phil. Thank you apta. My name is joe hughes, Vice President for three parts of route map software, product management, Customer Re
I was going to say, you should market it but it does kind of sound like a weird pregnancy line. The last word bump coffee cup. She did a solid eight minutes and that might be it. You discussed with Amy Klobuchar this issue that we, ive heard about on a lot of Television Talk about politics. The electability of a woman. Does a woman have a particular challenge . And i thought you dealt with that pretty wisely, obviously. That discussion is during repeatedly. Yeah. And i for one, and i dont watch every minute of cable news, but ive not heard one discussion of the electability of a gay man. I have not heard one discussion of the electability of a jewish man. Why is it that women, and apparently at this time, women alone are left to have to fight for the notion that they can actually win . Yeah. I mean, i think whats going on, you do hear some discussion about age, for example. And whether or not age is a limiting factor for some of the older candidates in the field. You heard that particu