19 special next on d w. And they will not succeed in dividing us sal not succeed in taking the people off the streets because were tired of this dictatorship. Taking the stand global news that matters. Made for mines. Some 200000 seafarers a stuck on ships because of the covert 9000 pandemic according to the International Transport Workers Federation theyre not allowed to leave their vessels because of International Travel restrictions and its hard for replacement crews to come and relieve them. Thousands of sailors dont have access to health professional. Experts are warning the situation could become life threatening for many heart attacks and suicide have already been reported aboard some ships. Welcome to you covered nothing special and news i want to jones good to have you with us now the movement of goods around the world depends on them but now there are unable to move themselves on todays show were talking about what it means for seafarer us to be stranded aboard because of pan
Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] about 20 minutes left in this discussion. A reminder, you can find it online at cspan. Org wj. The house gaveling back in. We take you now to the floor. He house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. The hat purpose does gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Takano madam speaker, i suspend the house rules and pass h. R. 4920. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 4920, a bill to amentitle 38, United States an , to provide for exception to certain Small Business contracting equirements applicable to the department of Veterans Affairs procurement of certain goods and Services Covered under the Ability One Program, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempe pursuant to the rule, the california, mr. Takano, and the gentleman from will each bost, control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman
Innovation panel. Weber honored to have dr. Anne schuchat, the center for Disease Control and prevention, and our second panelist is dr. Daniel salmon, Bloomberg School of public school. We are very honored to have the help and security interface from the World Health Organization joint joined us and he is going above and beyond the call of duty as he is alone in from australia through los angeles and took the redeye to be here this afternoon. He has come really above and beyond the call of duty. And then a final panelist is doctor irene koek, acting assistant administered for Global Health United States agency for international development. We will have a similar format of our last panel, and i would also maybe encourage the panelists if they feel the urge to ask one of their copanelist a question that just interrupt me and do it. Ask a wrong question, they just restate the question you would rather answer and go for it. What we are way behind so well probably go to audience q a much