Welcome congressman al green of texas who represents part of the houston area. Joining us to talk about the protests in the wake of the George Floyd Death and whats ahead for policing across the country. Congressman al green, thanks for being with us this morning. It is my honor to be with you this morning. I believe that we will break some ground this morning. I think that we have some legislation that we are proposing that will be for reaching. And im honored to bring this to cspan first. Tell us about that. Well, thank you. As you know, on may 27th, i called for a war on poverty excuse me, a war on racism. I mentioned poverty because quite frankly we declared a war on poverty, on drugs. We have declared wars on various things. We have never declared a war on racism. The question became, how do you do this . When president johnson declared his war on poverty, it was congress that passed the legislation that helped him to get Social Security through, medicare, medicaid, head start. Wh
Good afternoon. The committee will come to order. The today the committee convenes for a hearing on the state of transportation and Critical Infrastructure examining the impact of the covid19 pandemic. I welcome our panel of witnesses and thank them for participating. Today we will hear from mr. John bazella, president and ceo, alliance for automotive innovation. Mr. Randy gill yot, chairman of the board, American Trucking associations. Mr. Ian jeffries, president and ceo association of american railroads. Mr. Alex oler, interim president and ceo interstate Natural Gas Association of america. And mr. Larry willis, president Transportation Trades Department aflcio. Thank you all for being here. I understand, mr. Gilliot is testifying remotely. Welcome to each and every one of you. The committee has conducted several oversight hearings on quid pro quo 19 including a comprehensive look at the aviation industry. We are considering the impact of the covid19 virus on surface transportation a
Coronavirus crisis. This is two hours and 30 minutes. I want to begin by thanking our pannestist and esteemed members for joining us. This week our country passed a grim milestone, more than 100,000 americans have lost their lives due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of americans continue to contract this virus every day. Over 150 more here in South Carolina on yesterday. And the day before, wednesday, marked our largest singleday increase of covid19 deaths. Local Community Leaders across the country, democrats, and republic ans need strong federal leadership to help them combat this deadly threat. Communities need federal help to get the protective equipment and testing supplies they need to protect their front line medical workers and essential employees. Unfortunately the administration is leaving it up to the states. Forcing them to compete against each other in order to purchase equipment and supplies from the private sector, leading to higher prices and greater shortages. W
Regulations and the endangered species act are hurting the economy and should be repealed. Covid 19 has killed hundreds thousands of people road d worldwide. Theo virus, unfortunately, could call additional early deaths down the road into the off those unemployment and poverty that it could to stave off those avoidable deaths, America Needs to renovate the booming economy before we had covid19. To do so, we have put on this presentation. To listen today from the United States senator ted cruz andla mike lee. Eachtory tha one has ideas about Regulatory Reform proposals will kickstart our economy as well as keep it going strongo on the long term basis. I would now like to invite senator cruz and senator lee to join me. Before we start todayssenator discussion, i want to give each senator the opportunity to offer introductory remarks. Wsenator cruz, you are up at that first. Joi good morning. It is a pleasure to join you. Thank you for taking the time participate. Paul, it is good to see
In doing this topic, she said, what i think about scalawags and scoundrels, there is only one person who comes immediately to mind. I am so touched. Exactly the kind of character every girl longs to be associated with. Before you can start looking at the outlaws that the civil war spun off, you have to take a see and understand the guerrilla warfare that was going on during the civil war to understand how that same mindset continued after the war. In manifested itself in the wild west. In the civilfare war, you have those who are somewhat associated with the organized military and calvary raiders raters were the most closely associated. John mosby would fall under those were the more civilized versions of irregular warfare. Underneath that, you had guerrilla warfare and that was all across the south. When i say guerrilla warfare, i mean when i say guerrilla warfare, i mean people taking up arms for themselves and fighting. Some of them may have done it because they were in kill or be k