This is another case where youre a public figure and you let your messy private life combine together. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. At a Senate Hearing for the active head of the federal Railroad Administration, members questioned the mom knee about implementation about positive train control. A safety implementation to preefrt derailments, twothirds of Rail Companies wouldnt be able to implement the system before a december 31st deadline. This hearing of the science and Transportation Committee is an hour and a half. Want to welcome our nominee here this morning. And get this confirmation hearing under way. Today were going to consider the nomination of sarah feinberg. The fris mission is to oversee the safe, reliable and efficient movement of people and goods throughout our nations rail network. That rail network is absolutely vital to the nations economy. So its important that those who oversee it have the requisite skills and experience. Serving s the act
To the railroads that i think notifications of First Responders should be a priority. That they are we have an emergency order that went into place in may of 2014, that remains in place. We have reiterated its importance with the railroads. I wrote them a letter reminding them the expectation to be sharing that information with First Responders so those individuals have as much information as possible. Are the states saying we dont are the info in time enough to make sure they have the proper equipment and people available in case god forbid something would happen . It depends on the state. Some states have said they want more and we are asking the railroads to please work with them to give them all of the information they could possibly need. Some are satisfied. And then, depending on whether that information is made public frequently depends on the states finally, if you put a working group together working with the railroad executives and engineers and the people on the front line a
Underway. Today well consider the nomination of feinberg. Efficient movement of people and goods throughout our nations rail network. That rail network is vital to the nations economy so its important that those who directly oversee the safety and efficiency of this network have the skills and experience. Miss feinberg has been serving since january prior to her current assignment she served as chief of staff to transportation secretary from 2013 to 2014. From 2011 to 2013 j she was the policy and crisis communication director of facebook. Before that, she served as a Communications Director for the House Democratic caucus. She has an admirable commitment to Public Service, are concerned about the lack of experience in Railroad Safety. Its noted, former facebook executive and white house advisor whose resume is long on communications and policy posts and short on railroad experience, end quote. So in addition to asking miss feinberg to respond to the concerns, ill be asking her about t
For several years on the communications commission, also as administrator of the Rural Utility Service and now is head of pcia, the Wireless Infrastructure association which is what, mr. Adelstein . Guest this association represents the company that builds Wireless Networks, basically, the ones that deliver all of that content to your cell phone, your smartphone, your tablet. The big Cell Phone Companies are on there, at t, verizon, sprint, tmobile as well as companies that own and build the cell towers, the antennas that you find in Shopping Malls. All of the equipment thats behind the scenes that makes possible what you see on that little screen. Host so how many cell towers are there in the u. S. Right now this. Guest theres hundreds of thousands of them and, you know, the fact is its hard to keep up with the level of demand that we have for new infrastructure because of the demands that consumers are placing on the infrastructure we have today. Host what are some of the legislative
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