Department of transportation. The administration is proposing 94 billion in mandatory and Discretionary Spending for the department of transportation in his school year 2016. Included is proposed a six years 478 billion Service Transportation reauthorization paid for by a onetime 14 tax on the repatriation of the foreign parents foreign earns. While i support a repatriation proposal and am completely open to using some of the resulting funds for our infrastructure the president s budget is based on a reauthorization that is budgeted by a mandated approach. It really fails to propose any reforms necessary to bring about a longterm solvency of the highway and van transit trust funds. It is perplexing to hear the administrations half about how important our nations needed and yet the an ministration continues to remain silent on trust fund reforms that are put into place in order to address our crumbling roads, bridges, now and in the future. Simply saying we are happy to work with congre
That it becomes more and more clear to me and erik that the future is coming at us more than the experts are predicting. That means the economic consequences are coming more quickly than a lot of us are expecting and makes the discussions for today all the more important. Thanks very much. [ applause ] thank you all for joining us this morning. My name is melissa carney. I have the privilege of moderating our First Panel Discussion this morning. This panel is going to take the premise that andy and erik laid out for us, that there has been rapid technological advance particularly in the information center. We will ask the question what does that imply for the future of work, the future of workers and the nature of employment in this country in particular . As we tried to lay out in our hamilton project framing paper there are a lot of views on this topic and in particular if this will be good or bad on that or how good or bad on that for society. Fortunately this morning we have a real
Our senators with your constant love and faithfulness, answering them when they call to you in prayer. Help them to make every effort to do your will on earth, giving you their doubts and fears as they trust you to order their steps. May they realize that weakness provides an opportunity for your strength to be revealed. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , october 29, 2013. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable edward j. Markey, a senator from the commonwealth of massachusetts, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed patrick j. Leahy, pres
Cusp of an Energy Revolution. Putsob Energy Revolution energy front and center as a way to increase the economy, drive revenues to balance the budget. We know that we need to do that with smart policy and resisting the necessary regulations. We have a lot of efforts at the chamber. Our Regulatory Reform initiative. One thing that we do not talk about as often is the fact that we can produce a lot of energy in this country, but we have to be able to move it. Moving it is going to require a lot in transportation. Therating our panel today, chief economist for the American Petroleum institute. Bios for your speakers, i am going to assume that youre reading is done and i will share something with you that he shared with me before we started. John is a bit of a petroleum historian. He worked on a pipeline before he, as he said, gave up a honest living to become an economist. His other choice, by the way, was meteorologist. It works out well. On the other hand, you never know who is going to
Good afternoon. How was lunch . Could. I am Vice President for programs tear at the is to it is my pleasure to welcome you to the book form here to launch the book robert bryce entitled smaller faster lighter denser cheaper and i would add more colorful. Look at that. Jumping off the page. Smaller faster lighter denser cheaper is is this box and quite possibly his best. He is relentlessly optimistic and subscribes to the basic notion that americas best are ahead. In the era of environmental catastrophes and plagues and various other things on the front pages every day i pluses glad to read good news the promise of tomorrow rest of the fact we are continuing to innovate to make things what do you think . Smaller faster lighter denser cheaper and as he would explain the doomsday people are promulgating the etf collapse that the future is a scarcity end shortage but by every measure out there things are getting better. People are living longer and healthy and free lives but we still have