Here. Good morning to discuss the status of the National Rail network to have 140,000 miles of rail seven class one railroads and thousands of companies to ship products ands Raw Materials also and Intercity Passenger Rail Service operating on 22000 miles of that same network todays first panel president and ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation and the Economic Developers association testifying we will be. The Vice President corporation on behalf of the American Council mr. Randee gordon and the chairman to testify remotely and he didnt jeffries president and ceo association of american railroads and dennis pierce president of the teamsters rail conference. During this covid pandemic. In 1970 the real Passenger Service act was adopted to relieve our railroads on the common carrier to carry passengers. The statue created amtrak and provided real runs can be used by amtrak to offer intercity passenger real service, returns and compensation that are just
Ferraro. Our panelists for the debate are john mashek, National Correspondent for u. S. News and world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarrels, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for night ridder newspapers. Sander van oaker, senior Political Correspondent for abc news is our moderator tonight. Sandy . Thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of our format tonight. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last. Therefore, Vice President bush will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the four reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question, and then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts. There will be a section, the first one, on Domestic Affairs. The second on Foreign Affai
This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify
Hazel. Welcome. You are watching the Atlanta Press club loudermilkyoung debate series. This is the general Election Debate for candidates running for u. S. Senate to fill the seat currently held by senator david perdue. In order to ensure you once safety candidates and panelists participating from their home. The Atlanta Press club gives a special thank you to georgia public broadcasting for helping to organize the online debate. Lets meet the candidates. They are in alphabetical order libertarian shane hazel is a marine corps veteran and cohost and producer of the rebellion podcast which analyzes politics from a local to global level. Democrat jon ossoff has served as ceo of insight tw i come in Media Production company that investigates corruption and organized crime and war crimes for International News organizations. Republican david perdue has served as u. S. Senate since 2015. Before being elected to the senate he sat on the board of five major corporations and cofounded perdue p
Going on in the reeled world, roy wood, jr. On the vote and the crazy plot to kidnap the michigan governor. Lets do this. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Alsos be honest guys, there have been a lot of upsetting news over the last few weeks. Suks months, year and a half, four years and it only seems to be getting worse. Coronavirus, the supreme court, election anxiety, emily in paris, the list goes on and on. But it turns out there is still good news out there. So lets de compress for a moment with another installment of our ongoing segment, a ray of sunshine. Lets kick things off in peru, the country best known for its adorable living pun atas. Luke most of the world the south american nation has been in lockdown for coronavirus. But this week it reopened its biggest attraction for one lucky guy. Patients have paid off for a japanese tourist who refused to let the pandemic ruin his trip