Ladies and gentlemen, before i begin i would like to ask you to join me in recognizing an Incredible Group of soldiers sailors, airman marines and coast guards behind me. They are the best at what they do do, whatever they do including putting on sayreceremonyies like this one. Thank you very much. [applause] and mr. Secretary, i couldnt help thinking as the National Anthem is played i would hazard a guess how many times you have heard it but today it was played for you and i hope you remember the lasting service. Mr. President , secretary, men and women of the Armed Forces Good afternoon. It is an honor to thank secretary hagel for his service to our nation and what a Remarkable Service it has been. It started 20 years ago when Timothy Hagel was called in and they said young man you have six months to get back into college or you will be drafted into the vietnam war. Hagel replied i tried colleges, three colleges and lets say it wasnt in the best interest of those institutions to keep
Cspan, cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. Anthony foxx testified about the highway Transportation Group and was joined at the Senate Environment and pubic works hearing on transportation and infrastructure funding. This is two hours and 15 minutes. The meeting will come to order. I say to my friend the Ranking Member that the whole right side back there is oklahoma. I came in last night and they were having a dinner i thought two or three people i knew gary rid ridley would be there, he always is. But it is all familiar faces. We have a concern there is a lot of things about what is the government supposed to be doing and quite often, and the reason i got in on this 20 years ago is because this is what we are supposed to be doing. Building america and infrastructure. We understand that in oklahoma. We have gone through a process and i recall over in the house, secretary foxx knew what the biggest problem was in the Highway Trust Fund . Too much surplus. That was the problem we had. We
Theres much that we can learn from this 13year experience in how to take a more comprehensive approach, and to recognize while kinetic actions have a value all of their own certainly and thats blatantly obvious, nonkinetic actions do as well. We can do much better at that than what we have done. Thank you. General matt is my time is up, but do you have any you want to add . Very quickly senator i would point out we have to improve the process assuming there is a process. Ive been unable to identify one recently. I think it starts with the assumption we must develop a sound strategy or were going to waste lives and our treasury and our countrys future. I think, too, we need to move thor back to the senate, and not concentrated in a small but mushrooming it at the same time natural security staff that does not have the Foreign Service officers and the trained military officers who can actually develop what you are looking for here. I dont think we can adopt one preclusive form of war far
Department of Homeland Security into rain in a executive overreach. That is it. It is simple. There is no reason for democrats to block it. Politico reports that Senate Democrats intend to to block the homeland spending bill. One democrat who has spoken out against it is Senate Minority whip dick durbin. He called for a clean appropriation bill while speaking for the american advocates group, americas voice. You can watch tuesday at 2 30 eastern. As always, we will have coverage on cspan3. Next, transportation secretary anthony foxx talks to a committee about the future of the Highway Trust Fund and live at 7 00 a. M. Your questions and comments live on washington journal. Transportation director anthony foxx told the environment and public works that the looming transportation sequestration possibility is looming. This is about two hours and 15 minutes. The meeting will come to order. I say to my friend, the Ranking Member, that the whole right side back there is oklahoma. I came in l
Walk you through the project itself good morning, steve werheim project manager for the central soma plan. If i could have the slides, please. This is great for planning and mta to work so closely together, really valuable for all of us. I keep this quick, but of course its difficult to distill three years of work into a few minutes so please ask questions when we are done. So why are we even doing the central soma plan . There are many reasons. The first and foremost the bay area is continuing to thrive and grow. We expect based on regional numbers 2 million more people and a million more jobs through 2040. So were expecting to take our fair share of growth, about 200,000 and 190,000 jobs. People want to live in transit rich areas and walkable neighborhoods and soma has both of that. The advantage of soma is that it has a lot of Development Potential, that a lot of empty lots or underutilized commercial buildings that dont require displacement and are advantageous places for developme