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 provides very much needed certainty and funding so that our nonfederal partners can make smart longterm investments. The fact that fast act is a forward looking law that puts an emphasis on project of National Existence streamlining project delivery and icnn
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 provides very much needed certainty and funding so that our nonfederal partners can make smart longterm investments. The fact that fast act is a forward looking law that puts an emphasis on project of National Existence streamlining project delivery and icnn
And with a choice anecdote this is how you begin your memoir. You find yourself in the heat of the nevada desert desperately trying to communicate over a phone line, a phone booth. You remember phone booths . Are battling off a fire ants and you had just written a song for someone and you are having a hard time getting through to this individual or tell us the story. So, this was the morning after a gig we did at the greek theatre in los angeles and backstage at the Greek Theater was none other than Michael Jackson and he said to me, to my astonishment he knew the names of some of my songs and asked me if i had any extra songs knocking around and im like sure i do, michael. He said yet anything like hyperactive. It so happens i have something exactly like hyperactive and he said when can i hear it and i said i can make a demo in the back of my tour bus and i can send it to you from my personal computer and i had a personal computer from radioshack, you know one of those things with the
All they do on the half behal f of this Great Institution. [applause] tonights program lasts about an hour and it will include a question and answer session. You should have received notecards as you enter the auditorium. If you did not, staff is still going through the seats, the the aisles with notecards and your notecards will be collected later on in the program. Following the program, there will be a book signing. And books will be available for purchase in our history store. We are delighted to welcome leuchtenburg back. Professor leuchtenburg has taught at numerous universities over the course of six decades. Including columbia and oxford universities. He served as president ial elections analyst for nbc and eyes president ial inauguration consultant to cbs and cspan. The professor was the first recipient at the arthur m injure schlessinger award. He is the author of 16 books, including the american president s from Teddy Roosevelt to bill clinton. Harold holzer is the author of
For middle school and high school students. Students told us most urgent issue for the president and congress. Our second privatize the winner is an 11th grader from silver spring, maryland. Abigail landsman. Her documentary on islamophobia and refugees entitled the crisis in the fear. Because thed this refugee crisis has been in his for a long time. My cousins are refugees. Ive heard their stories. If they had their wish, they would be home. It is not a choice to come when you are a refugee. With the new president ial administrations recent actions, if causing a lot of hate which is called islamophobia when its against muslims. Eign mileage] m language] it is imperative in 2017 congress and the president work on bringing more Syrian Refugees into the United States. Most people are aware of there being a refugee crisis in the world, o it is this crisis . The refugee crisis has been called the worst humanitarian crisis since world war ii. The Syrian Civil War had a real impact on the po