Today. Another edition of this Program Comes your way tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. You will be able to text us at 202 7488003. We go to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the order. Ill be in the chair lays before the house communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, 10, ngton, d. C. , september 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable dingell to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Speaker ofcy pelosi, representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the mr. Eman from illinois, bos, fo
That representation Transportation Safety issues along with my Ranking Member senator cantwell let me welcome our Signature Panel of witnesses and thank them for this hearing. Well hear from the department of transportation including neil szabat ron brinks and straygur of the federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and deputy minister of traffic and safety. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2019 better known as the fastback rasterized the administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface transportation paid sns and fra. Identifying issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The fastback places a greater focus on our nations Multimodal Network that includes establishing the emperor Grant Program. This program and others such as formerly tiger grants are critical to improve our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the winces will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve our i
Since the beginning of the year have judged that our current policy stance was only appropriate and that we should be patient in assessing the need for any changes. In light of increased uncertainties and muted inflation pressures, we now emphasize that we will closely monitor incoming information for the Economic Outlook and will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion with a strong labor market and inflation near its 2 objective. I would like to take a step back and review how the changing picture and financial brings us to todays decision. So far this year the economy has , performed reasonably well with solid fundamentals supporting continued growth and strong employment. Inflation has been running somewhat below our objective but we expect it to pick up supported by solid growth and a , strong job market. Along with this stable picture, we have been mindful of some ongoing crosscurrents, including trade development and concerns about Global Growth. At the time of our last fomc
Testified on oversight and Infrastructure Investment. Topics include the recent recall of more than 2,000,000 t vehicles due to safety concerns with the autopilot system. Electric vehicle charging station infrastructure, highspeed rail, and Vehicle Safety standards. The hearing was held before house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee. [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee on highway internal condors are asking in the sense of the german golfers to declare recess at the time during todays hearing. Without objection, so ordered. Also ask consent members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at the days inn and ask questions without objection. So ordered. If members wish to insert a document into the record is also email it. Ask unanimous consent to enter a letter from senator capito and several other senators and a press release on senator cramer into the record. Without objection and so ordered. I never like it has myself for the purposes of
Thousand this year alone. I promised you a little cloak and dagger but let me set it up for you last year u. S. President donald trump famously said and i quote nobody knew health care was so complex well a lot of people that health care is complex and that may be one of the reasons why print the president has not repealed and replaced the Affordable Care act obamacare as he had sought but in fairness we live in an increasingly complex world for example the law that established our us Banking System in eight hundred sixty four was only twenty nine pages ill be speaking about the Federal Reserve in a few minutes and the Federal Reserve act of one nine hundred thirteen the entire thing was only thirty two pages but the wall street reform and Consumer Protection act of two thousand and ten commonly known as dodd frank a law i worked on in the wake of the financial collapse is eight hundred forty eight pages long and there are close to four hundred regulations related to that various agenc