A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from florida rube is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is in a quorum call. Mr. Rubio madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Rubio thank you, madam president. When there is an ongoing debite about the value of American Leadership around the world in the 21st century. Theres a view that seems to be gaining traction and favor that our International Engagement is one sided, that our allies are free riders that we contribute too much and get too little in return so why should we bother being involved in the world. These voices exist in both parties and i would like to answer them here da. I want to start by looking back at the last century when the world emerged from the death and destruction of the Second World War. The United States could have after that war decided to wall ourselves off, that after the loss of so many
Them would have to be here. And so were grateful that they are. And our entire nation expresses its profound gratitude. More important, were so grateful that they were there. Some on duty, others off duty. All rising above and beyond the call of duty. All saving the lives of people they didnt know. That distinction that these 13 officers of valor saved the lives of strangers is the first of several qualities they share. But their bravery, if it had not been for their bravery, we likely would have lost a lot of people, mothers, brothers, sons, daughters, friends, and loved ones. Thankfully they are still with their families today because these officers were where they needed to be most at a critical time. At a gas station during a routine patrol. In the middle of a busy hospital, in a grocery store, on the campus of a community college. Near an Elementary School where a sheriffs deputys children and his wife taught. In each of these moments these officers were true to their oat oaths. T
My orking at ncta, and so relationship with the cable industry goes back a long, long time. And it was always a great privilege, i thought, to be associated with this industry at that particular point in history. And you know, Michael Powell was kind enough after i became chairman to ask me to come and meet with the ncta board. D i sat down and i said, you know, folks, everything that i relationship he etween government and industry were was a philosophy that was developed while i was at ncta. Because that was a period in time when the cable industry s the voice of competition and innovation. And those who did not want things to change in those days, it was the broadcasters and hollywood, and the Telephone Company all working together to try and hold back the cable industry those who did not want things to change used government to maintain the status quo to the detriment of consumers. And so the philosophy that i developed coming out of that kind of experience is that the job of gover
Prosecution had to occur, that the investigation needed to be done in the right way and to make sure that the rule of law was going to be filed followed and that emotions would not take any partve what we were doing. And it was an interesting time. It was choose. Chaos. Everybody probably wanted to stop what we they were doing because it was the most horrific crime on american soil at the time but we had to go forward, we had to bring the perpetrators to justice. We had to find out what was going on, what actually happened. We also had like ive never seen before in my entire professional life as a prrks more tools, more agents, more cops, more First Responders all in one spot and all anybody wanted to do was to help and we needed somebody to be the conductor and to orchestrate all that energy, all that smartness, all that brains, all that power, to go ahead and investigate the case. And i can answer you plenty of questions with you, but merrick and i literally, when he got there, we wa
House a visit. But there are historical examples when that situation has arisen and when the powers that be have gotten the answer they did not like they went to another consultant who did give them the answer they were looking for in the bridge got built and collapsed. So these are again political on a certain level and people psychology is probably not the proper word, human nature problems. Im a big fan of your work on evolution of design and im wondering your perspective on how infrastructure is going to start to evolve as we go without cars and transport, how to think the roads and things will change after we get these cars off the road . Well if you could get the roads out from under the driver, actually do have a chapter of the and that technology is moving pretty quickly, tana ms. Vehicles self vehicles. The technology is almost basically here, it becomes a Public Policy question at this point, local laws written such that there has to be a driver in the car. What does the driv