This is just over two hours. Good morning. Before we begin, i want to express our support for and thoughts and prayers for all the victims of the recent hushrricas and most recently in florida and our colleague in the Ranking Member on this committee, senator nelson. He and senator rubio are there today as they should be, and looking out for the needs of their constituents and so again, we certainly want to express our support, prayers for them and for the people of florida as they deal with a horrific storm and its aftermath. This committee has been working for some time in a bipartisan fashion to address the advancement of Autonomous Vehicles. And i especially want to thank senator peters for partnering with me in this effort. I also appreciate the contributions of Ranking Member nelson who as i said, is unable to join us today. We put a lot of work into this effort to kate and i look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues to introduce and pass bipartisan legislation. Given
Good morning. Before we begin, i certainly want to express our support for and thoughts and prayers for all the victims of the recent hurricanes and most recently, of course, in the state of florida and our colleague in the Ranking Member on this committee, senator nel. He and senator rubio are there today as they should be. And looking out for the needs of their constituents. So again, we certainly want to express our support, prayers for them and the people of florida as they deal with a horrific storm and its aftermath. This committee has been working for some time in a bipartisan fashion to address the advancement of Autonomous Vehicles. I especially want to thank senator peters for partnering with me in this effort. I also appreciate the contributions of Ranking Member nelson, who as i said is unfortunately unable to join us today. We put a lot of work into this effort to date. I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues to introduce and pass bipartisan legislation. Gi
Reading of the history of the fed. R more importantly is to look forward to what we presume chairman powell will do. Scarlet that enough it will come at around 3 00 p. M. Eastern time. He is set to make an announcement in the rose garden. Michael what do we really know about jay powell . A lot of people expressing ancerns about him not being economist. He went to princeton and georgetown law. He was a lawyer but went into investment trading and he worked a number of the biggest houses on wall street. Deals and then he went into government and worked for George H W Bush funding the government and supervising financial institutions. A lot of experience before joining the fed. What do we know about what he wants to do . Let us take a look at some of the things we know he has told us. He knows that economy is growing at about 2 , and we are close to full employment. Inflation is going to move up to 2 , according to mr. Powell. Low productivity is the biggest reason we seeing depressed wage
Ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation will gather and focus on infrastructure with government officials at some 100 event
Ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation will gather and focus on infrastructure with government officials at some 100 event