Oklahoma department of transportation and the president of the dallas area Rapid Transit system. The hearing is about two hours. We will call the subcommittee to order. I like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen the reports in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our system which carries over 400,000 cars a day. With that volume of traffic, its amazing there wasnt any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the implementation of the fast act of state and local partners. Its the first long term surface transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill pr
Its a bill that provides very certainty and funding so our nonfederal artners can make smart long investments. Implemented by the u. S. Department of transportation. We look forward to building a infrastructure with our state and local partners and their oing to welcome today. I am grateful for this subcommittee hearing. I think it indicates that our subcommittee wants to get behind all of the interest that weve heard on infrastructure and see what we can really do. We know that a large infrastructure package idea, the idea of a large infrastructure package, which is on the minds of many in the administration and on our minds is not going to magically appear. We did a lot of and ill say, deservedly so, a lot of selfcongratulation when we passed the First Service transportation bill in 10 years, and i must say im very grateful, mr. Chairman, that it was a good bipartisan effort and i know you share with me the disappointment in order to get any increase whatsoever after 10 years, we had
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Killing africanamerican men in baton rouge, louisiana, and Falcon Heights, minneapolis. Pres. Obama incidents like this there is a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels because of the color of their skin, theyre not being treated the same. Amy we will speak with a retired new york Police Attacked up as well as the head of the naacp in baton rouge, and the. Uthor Marc Lamont Hill then we look at a stunning expose into the privatized world of prison extradition in which prisoners are transferred across the country by forprofit van companies. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In dallas, five Police Officers have been shot dead and six. Thers were wounded the police were patrolling a demonstration in Downtown Dallas against the recent Police Shootings of alton sterling in baton rouge, louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, minnesota. Video of the men being killed by police have sparked