202 7488001, 202 7488000, an independents, 202 7488002. If you want to text us your thoughts, you can do that at 202 7488003. Can post it was earlier today that President Biden landed in israel. Saying hes visiting israel in the wake of the strike on the gaza hospital. The president on the comments he made african landed. Heres a portion you made. [video clip] it seems to me that that had to continue to ensure to defend themselves. And we want to make sure that occurred. We have to also bear in mind that it does not represent all the palestinian people. Years ago, i asked her secretary of state asked the secretary. Thank you. The point is this. We are saddened and outraged by the explosion of the hospital in gaza yesterday. Theres a lot of people who were not sure. Helping people caught in the middle of this. We are. Host that was from earlier. The president in israel to address those topics. You can comment on that and the House Speaker race. Punch bowl news with their assessment of w
Everyone in this room is so incredibly efficient. [applause] very excited to be here these past the first test. I am 2024 president of the american society. I want to thank our distinguished guests for joining us today. We have rick larson Ranking Member of the house transportation and infrastructure. I am very excited to continue to Work Together historic Infrastructure Investments Congress Passed and they are working to ensure implementation make sure of the success. We published yesterday in the Infrastructure Investment need to act on federal investment will protect the industries from losing more than 1 trillion in economic output and help avoid more than 600 billing dollars and gives American Families an additional 550 billion in disposable income. I could use that, i dont know about you guys. 237,000 american jobs for the same. The right path for improving Critical Infrastructure network but our work is not done. We regard to keep this economic ecosystem an attractive investment
Please all take a fiveminute break traffic in d. C. Is traffic and deceit we are running ahead of schedule because everyone is so efficient. Chat with yourselves for check the emails will be back with our programming just as soon as we possibly can. Stick close, thank you so much. [background noises] police welcome future of federal investment in infrastructure panel. Welcome we are excited to be here. After he got in the right juris yearswe are supposed to sit in. We passed the first test. Good afternoon my name is marsia i am 2024 president of the american Civil Engineers. I want to thank our distinguished guests for joining us today. We have a representative of the House Committee on transportation and infrastructure chairman of the subcommittee on aviation. And we have a representative rick larsen the Ranking Member of the House Committee on transportation infrastructure but im very excited to hear from these cheap members of congress to continue to Work Together to improve our inf
That may or may not exist, but certainly, the u. S. Has tried to be as transparent as possible with regard to Space Programs explaining even in the face of narratives that certain of our capacities are weaponized when theyre not, so i would refer you to some of the Good Communications what were doing in space, the clarification and transparency provided both by the space force you can finish watching this at cspan. Org. We are going 0 to take you to an infrastructure conference. Live coverage on cspan2. Inside this beautiful space, thank you all for taking the time this morning to be here with us. I love seeing a room starting to get slowly filled up with a bunch of infrastructure nerds like myself. Thank you, fantastic. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024, exciting, yes, amazing. [applause] im ross, leading from my post at accelerator for more action. And many of you have been with us since we take the rains two years ago, a fantastic two years leading this wonderful coalition of orga
That the request to congress will be for well beyond 2 billion in support. That is for israel, that is for ukraine. In the past youve said you dont want a blank check to ukraine. Do you want a blank check to israel . No. I think that theres actually two different things. One with israel, weve provided a lot of support since its inception, about 158 billion in the last 75 years. Weve done over 120 billion just for ukraine in two years. Its a different level that were talking about. Also, with israel, theyve never asked us to displace their responsibility. They take their defense very seriously. What we do complements and supplements what theyre already doing for themselves but they are not going to ask us to fight this war for them. We have a longstanding security relationship. Theyre a very strong and longstanding ally and well be willing to support in the traditional ways that we have. There are no u. S. Troops fighting in ukraine. No, but what bidens policy is, a blank check, in his