The subcommittee will come to order. Our minds are elsewhere because of what happened at the baseball practice field menn of one to once again mention those two Brave Police Officers ever injured with a member and former member of the staff so we do not forget them and we wish there full recovery. Still with that be welcome secretary chao with fiscal year 2018 budget secretary chao comes to this position with frankly one of the most to impressive records of Public Service having served as chair as the Maritime Commission the department of transportation director of the peace corps not to mention in leadership positions in the private sector and not for profit you have large and complex organizations were fortunate to have somebody of your expertise and experience and knowledge facing deity as we face some challenges but nobody is more prepared than we have agreed to come back to Public Service has to always have. I work look forward to working with you to maintain the safety of our Tra
The subcommittee will come to order. Our minds are elsewhere because of what happened at the baseball practice field menn of one to once again mention those two Brave Police Officers ever injured with a member and former member of the staff so we do not forget them and we wish there full recovery. Still with that be welcome secretary chao with fiscal year 2018 budget secretary chao comes to this position with frankly one of the most to impressive records of Public Service having served as chair as the Maritime Commission the department of transportation director of the peace corps not to mention in leadership positions in the private sector and not for profit you have large and complex organizations were fortunate to have somebody of your expertise and experience and knowledge facing deity as we face some challenges but nobody is more prepared than we have agreed to come back to Public Service has to always have. I work look forward to working with you to maintain the safety of our Tra
Cspan programs are available at cspan. Org. It is on our homepage or video library. Secretarysportation alain shout testifies on a president s 2018 budget request and other priorities for her department. From houseuestions members about the president s plan to privatize the nations air Traffic Control system and reductions to transportation projects. This is two hours. The subcommittee will come to order. Before i began, i know that all of our minds are a little bit elsewhere because of the incident yesterday at the baseball practice field. I just wanted to, once again mention how all of us are whip,g for, obviously the steve scalise. The two Brave Police Officers along with a member of the staff and a former member of the staff who were injured. We cannot forget them and we do not. We wish their full recoveries. With that, this morning we welcome secretary chao to testify for the department of transportation 2018 budget. I dont have to tell any of you that secretary chao comes to this
The story of a neighbors collapse. Venezuela massive street demonstrations, three dead. The socialist president maduro says the time for come back has arrived. Its destabilizing the region. What should america do . Send in the marines, send food . Let them sort it out themselves . Were on it, and what exactly are we allowed to smoke. On the day that new york city bans Tobacco Sales in some stores and tries to put up the pack of cigarettes to 13, thousands of people will light up a joint in public. Its marijuana day, 420. Come to this, tobacco increasingly expensive and outlawed and marijuana increasingly accepted and getting cheaper. Varney company is about to begin. A disintegration of venezuela, once a wealthy country, sitting on the biggest oil reserves in the hemisphere, now a socialist dictatorship and falling into anarchy. Look at that. Emack, whats this about the seizure of a General Motors plant. Liz yeah, affecting 2700 workers. The judiciary in venezuela took the factory and
Here on today. After three years awake Justin Bieber is back with a new song. With a new outlook and a new concert on the plaza, he is about to show this crowd exactly what he means, today, thursday september 10, 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today, a thursday morning there are concert crowds and then there are Justin Bieber concert crowds and they are not all created equal. Yeah this is a bic one. He first appeared on this show when he was 15 this crowd first started appearing some time two days ago. Need a little help from Mother Nature it has been raining hard overnight, flying without a net. No tent today f it rains, they get wet. Everybody gets wet this morning. We will have the concert in a little bit. Let us start this thursday morn with our top story, a string of shootings targeting cars on the phoenix highway, rat. Ing the nerves of the drivers and t