The u. S. Chamber of commerce hosted an infrastructure conference in washington, d. C. With members of congress, Biden Administration officials and state and local leaders to discuss legislation by the ten year and how it applied to workforce training, manufacturing and the electrical grid. The event began with keynote remarks by the acting labor secretary. This is about four hours. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the director at united infrastructure. Good morning. How is everyone doing this morning. Fantastic. I know the rain just started, so a perfect reason to get everyone started inside. I love seeing a room starting to get filled up with infrastructure nerds like myself. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024. Very exciting. I am supremely honored. Many of you have been with us just twota years ago its fantastic leading this wonderful coalition of organizations and associations and private Sector Companies so many of you are here in this room with us today thank you for your su
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
Is important how these lone wolfs are incubated, how they are made, much rather than how to perpetrate the act or how to play in the act. The lone wolf terrorist needs to be studied end lone wolf terrorism is hard to see your eyes, to study until the absence of case studies. Every attack is a unique and special with a different method and different ideological impact and so on. And it could be used by terrorists and known terrorists. Spike bowman, may i ask you a question about dan forsman point of view . One concern is the relevant intelligence and sharing of intelligence in terms of different agencies. How do you say this in light of recent revelation of the nsa struggling terms of the question of the Civil Liberties concerns that you worked on for so many years . Civil liberties, excuse me, Civil Liberties was always one of the biggest concerns we had at the fbi because the fbi is, unlike nsa or the Central Intelligence agency, 95 of what the nsa collected are against u. S. Persons,
From my daughter. Women faces these challenges. Women are considered too emotional to have Public Office. I dont have a problem having a tear in my eye when something affects me. In a nutshell, women are helped with very different standard than men, even in 2013. Us is not ok. This is what i have been fighting against my entire career. I know quite well what it is like to be the only woman at the table and it is difficult. I will admit i was hesitant to run for office until i decided it was time for a change. When i was first sworn into the senate in 1993, i was only the 16th woman ever elected to the 1790. Husetts senate since pretty disgusting, isnt it . [laughter] when i was elected resident of the senate in 2007, i was the first woman ever to be elected to lead a legislative body and at massachusetts. In massachusetts. [applause] today only 25 of our legislature is women and in the senate the number has only grown to 13 . This is not just a problem in massachusetts. 18 of the seats
In the extreme cases of getting involved in a land war somewhere or setting a bad example that leads people elsewhere to question your power, the assumptions of your questions are correct. I want to follow up on that. There is a perception that there is not another actor like the United States if the United States is not act, it is not clear who will act. If it looks like we are retrenching, if it looks like we establish red lines but do not act on them, that does send a message. The point you made about the increasing dependency upon energy from the gulf area and the understanding that we are the ones who have been made sure that the sea lines of communication have remained open , where does that leave us . There is a desire for us to be smart about how we use our power. There is a concern that if we begin to retrench and we appear that our dependence on our end up it is not a source of great reoccurrence reassurance to those in asia. One other point i want to throw out there, it is t