Transportation and infrastructure. Transportation industry representatives testify about their role about shipping personal protective equipment and other essential goods during the pandemic. Today we will hear from these speakers. Thank you all for being here. One of our participants is testifying remotely. Welcome to each and every one of you. We have conducted a series of hearings on covid19. We are hearing those discussions. We are continuing that by hearing about the Transportation Industry. Theave underscored importance of our Transportation Network and moving goods and people safely and efficiently as well as ensuring supply chain fluidity in response to the unexpected events. Manye grateful for the frontline workers who have shown resilience and resourcefulness to help deliver Critical Care supplies to those in need. The transportation sector has countless numbers of these unsung heroes. Introduced a Critical Infrastructure employee protection act. For arcde support frontline C
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Clintons administration serving for nearly eight years. She was 78. And in a 5. 0 nag any attitude earthquake in central oklahoma damaged several buildings. The Downtown Energy hub of cushing was blocked off and part of the area was without power for two hours. There were several gas leaks but Officials Say they have been contained. No lifethreatening injuries were reported. A spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission Says that they have been in contact with pipeline operators in cushing and no immediate reports of problems. Weird, though. Never was an earthquake center. Odd. Back to the political story this morning, the fbi director james comey is maintaining his recommendation that Hillary Clinton not face charges following the newlydiscovered emails. And ayman is here with more. Good morning, joe. We had twists and turns down to the last day in the president ial campaign. But late yesterday the fbi director james comey sent a letter to capitol hill saying the fbi completed i
Shuster was touting the open process laid out a Leadership Conference today to reporters. Its boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. However, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. So technically, this isnt the most open process but with a highway bill thats spanning hundreds of pages and over 200 amendments submitted from the house, leadership has to do something to try to kind of limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill shuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this, so here we go, he tells the house rules committee. Why did it take so long and what is the current deadline . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the diffi
the high cost of oil and gas, rising prices there appear to have taken the biden administration by surprise. are you surprised by this? i m not surprised at all because everything president biden has touched or done has failed, nothing but a total failure. we went from america first to america last and america last, trump had it going on. we have all these high prices of oil and gas, we have rest stop crews ready to go, pipeline contractors stacked in the yards and i tell you right now we can put america s working next week if we needed to. carley: what i am hearing you say is president biden has the power to lower gas prices if he wanted to. sure. all he has to do is put the american people back to work