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
3 3 we start this morning with a cruise ship. Lawmakers want an investigation into Royal Caribbean after one of its ships sailed right into the path of a dangerous storm over the weekend. The luxury cruise liner. Along with thousands of passengers on board. Came back to its home port in bayonne new jersey wednesday night after the nightmare trip. C b s news correspondent don champion is there. 3 pkg nat man kisses the ground after a nightmare at sea. Passengers of the anthem of the seas cruise ship are back on solid ground. Sharing tales of a dream caribbean vacation gone wrong sot david link passenger the wind was coming through the doors. We thought it would break the glass. We slept on the sofa because we didnt think we were going to make it sot nat of cell phone video of waves the 200 thousand ton liner set sail for the bahamas last weekend but got caught in a major winter storm in the atlantic. The vessel was battered by 30 winds. sot dennis maher passenger i was on deck eight, an
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