Nominations of the Principal Deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence, robert karen to be assistant secretary of defense for new National Security affairs and kenneth to be assistant secretary of defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security. I note the presence of several of our colleagues including our distinguished majority leader who is here as well. Representative barbara comstock. If it is agreeable to our colleagues, we would like senator mcconnell to make an introduction, it is a heavy busy schedule. Welcome, senator mcconnell. Senator reid, members of the committee, i am proud to be here today to introduce robert karen, a very experienced and wellqualified nominee to serve as next assistant secretary of defense in National Security affairs. This committee will find an individual who worked to prepare himself to address major challenges facing our country. Because of his razorsharp intelligence and diligence, robert, a native of lexington, kentucky, rapidly moved u
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Me will get started. Were missing a speaker hopefully he will arrive when it is his turn. Thanks for all of you coming today. Infrastructure in is a priority for the new and ministration. President trump has called for a 1 trillion infrastructure plan. We dont know what that means 1 trillion of federal Government Spending or the plan put together by hisis pfizers that call for the tax credit for newman vestment of infrastructure prescribe not a fan of either approach so i hope theyre open to different ideas. Everyone agrees America Needs to reprove the efficiency of the Infrastructure Investment trump has talked about deregulation as a way to reduce the cost and must boost to of highway building to get better highways. That the main reform fe have proceeded is privatize edition of Publicprivate Partnerships and has spent three decades she privatize the met the launching a global mw restaurant now half of europes airports are private donald trump has called them thirdworld. What will he
Me will get started. Were missing a speaker hopefully he will arrive when it is his turn. Thanks for all of you coming today. Infrastructure in is a priority for the new and ministration. President trump has called for a 1 trillion infrastructure plan. We dont know what that means 1 trillion of federal Government Spending or the plan put together by hisis pfizers that call for the tax credit for newman vestment of infrastructure prescribe not a fan of either approach so i hope theyre open to different ideas. Everyone agrees America Needs to reprove the efficiency of the Infrastructure Investment trump has talked about deregulation as a way to reduce the cost and must boost to of highway building to get better highways. That the main reform fe have proceeded is privatize edition of Publicprivate Partnerships and has spent three decades she privatize the met the launching a global mw restaurant now half of europes airports are private donald trump has called them thirdworld. What will he
Test. Test. Test. Test. I heard a lot of good ideas here, but most people dont understand it. And i would beg you to put it into visual charts to sort of show what the changes would be and then compared with what charts charts . It was a suggestion. Very good suggestion. Maybe in the second row down in front here . Ann stone. I have advice about getting the transportation to accept new technologies. You talk about redoing bridges and roads. There are materials a lot better than concrete and asphalt out there now and were not using it. In fact, theres one person i know that invented something thats used to fill potholes in minnesota and i think kentucky and the filler is so effective, the road crumbles around it and the pothole rehamains. Why not do the entire road out of it . And with concrete, catches on fire. Burn, melt, collapse. There are materials that are fireproof. So how do we get the government to look at these new technologies so that if were going to rebuild infrastructure,