The committee on transportation infrastructure will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that security be authorized to declare basis of the hearing without objection, so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent for the Ranking Member of the full committee to be recognized for ten minutes each i will be making to unanimous requests for documents from the attorneys said. I see nothing that is export sensitive in these documents will be making a unanimous consent request pistol into the export control act and make a unanimous consent request to enter the documents on the list into the hearing record. This list includes the export control documents theyve reviewed all these documents on both lists and with i would ask unanimous consent that they be disclosed pursuant to the code. I want to reserve my right to object. The reason for doing that is we have had at least two that i can remember noting the industries and that includes maritime, transit, you name it and they would love to have th
Time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. How dangerous is the superpower rivalry in technology and information . Well currently, there is much focus on the tensions between the us and china over the chinese tech giant huawei. Soon, sg networks will be of critical part of oui networks will be of critical part of our world in transportation, power supply, our world in transportation, power supply, Payment Systems and so much more. Washington says the chinese cant be trusted because they may use that Technology Infrastructure for spying. Beijing says this is nonsense. My guess is the us top official on cyber information and security, ambassador robert strayer. He is ona security, ambassador robert strayer. He is on a mission to dissuade europeans from doing business with huawei but is washington losing the cyber war . Ambassador robert strayer, welcome to hardtalk. Labour thank you for having me. What are your fears exactly about using Chinese Telecommunications tech
And all of todays program at cspan. Org. Well leave here. The u. S. House gaveling in shortly to continue debate on 47 billion next year for the treasury department, the judiciary and executive branch, as well as the district of columbia. About 6 more than this year than last. Live coverage of the house is herere on cspan. The speaker pro tempore t he house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Guide the members of this peoples house with the spirit of understanding which might lead them to their best judgment. We live in a world of human failure and broken promises. May they be tolerant of the faults of others because they are aarof their own shortcomings. Bless all with a quiet respect for the diversity of opinions to be found here. Through honest dialogue and contemplative listening may your servants search all the avenues open to them to meet todays challeng
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
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