Watch the cspan cities tour of trenton, new jersey, saturday at 5 00 p. M. Eastern and sunday at 2 00 p. M. On cspan3. Working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Transportation secretary elaine chao gave her first testimony before congress on the trump administrations plan to address the nations infrastructure challenges. The Senate Environment and public works hearing runs about two hours. I call this hearing to order. Today we are welcoming the secretary of transportation, the honorable elaine chao, to testify before the Senate Committee on environment and public works on our nations infrastructure needs. Madam secretary, welcome to the committee. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has always taken the lead on infrastructure issues in the senate. When unveiled, other committees infrastructure proposals will increase funding and provide streamlining requirements for the construction of pipelines, rail, housing, and large urban projects of
Sunday on American History tv on cspan3. Working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Transportation secretary elaine chao was on capitol hill today to talk about the administrations 1 trillion infrastructure plan, which would airportsways, produce and transit projects over a 10 year period. The Public Works Committee hearing runs for two hours. Or all this hearing to order and we are calling for the honorable elaine chao to testify on our nations infrastructure need. Welcome to the committee. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has always taken the lead on infrastructure issues in the senate. Committeesed, other infrastructure proposals will increase funding and provide streamlining requirements for the construction of pipelines, rail, housing and large urban projects of various kinds that maybe privately financed through publicprivate partnerships to name a few of the issues. However, our highways, roads and bridges should be a central compo
Changes provided for under the fast act including processing procedures and an application dashboard. And finally something that goes hand in hand with all of the departments efforts is research and innovation. In march we began the competition for utc grants which allows students and faculty to Work Together towards innovative transportation solutions. Weve received 212 applications for the 35 grants available. Im proud of the work the department has accomplished in such a short period of time. But this is just the beginning. And it would not be possible i would like to repeat without the work of this congress on a bipartisan basis. We will continue our aggressive schedule to execute the reforms you put into place because if our nations going to have the type of Transportation System tomorrow that is better than it had today, wasted time is something none of us can afford. So with that, mr. Chairman, i want to thank you and i look forward to your questions. Thank you, mr. Secretary. A
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The National Freight Advisory Committee had 81 recommendations that they gave to us. A lot of those we can act upon with an existing authority, including thinking about freight multimodally. Our National Freight Strategic Plan really takes that tack. Some of the other things is that theyve recommended to us is figuring out where our data gaps are. Thats where youll see in our conditions and performance report thats upcoming a real emphasis on where our data gaps are. Also theyve aggressed theyve asked us to look at the work force issues. We have a partnership weve been working with the department of ed and department of labor to figure out what the work force needs are in the freight industry and how we can address them. But there is a lot of things we cant do with an existing authorities. Thats why the grow america act proposes a 10 billion Freight Program to find where those national choke points are and encourage multistate planning. Again, thank you for your advocacy. Well, i certa