Works committee. Its about two hours. I call this hearing to order. Todays hearing is about the need for this committee to draft and to pass a bipartisan Highway Infrastructure bill. Both Ranking Member carpers staff and my staff have been working on drafting this legislation along with all of the members of this committee. We appreciate all the input we received from our home states, from our fellow members and from transportation stakeholders. Its our shared goal to advance a bill out of the committee this summer. That means the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be first out of the gate to pass a Highway Infrastructure bill. This is appropriate given the history of bipartisan efforts to pass previous surface as far as surface transportation bills. Chef crumbling roads and bridges and they need to replaced. Projected population growth and existing congestion require states to build new capacity to meet future needs. Our economy is built upon a well functioning road sy
I call this hearing to order. Todays hearing is about the need for this committee to draft and to pass a bipartisan Highway Infrastructure bill. Both Ranking Member carpers staff and my staff have been working on drafting this legislation along with all of the members of this committee. We appreciate all the input we received from our home states, from our fellow members and from transportation stakeholders. Its our shared goal to advance a bill out of the committee this summer. That means the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be first out of the gate to pass a Highway Infrastructure bill. This is appropriate given the history of bipartisan efforts to pass previous surface as far as surface transportation bills. Chef crumbling roads and bridges and they need to replaced. Projected population growth and existing congestion require states to build new capacity to meet future needs. Our economy is built upon a well functioning road system that allows products from rural a
Against an epidemic brought to us by opioids. It does not matter where you live. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. While new england and the ohio valley regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic, Health Officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all report a dwroeg number of Overdose Deaths in those counties. The latest figures from the cdc is astounding, 91 americans die every day from an overdose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expected tos members will bring to the forefront key incites on this critical issue. In the Previous Congress the energy and Commerce Committee led several bipartisan initiatives to help address the epidemic. Theyre now law in providing resources at the state and local levels. Much needed policy changes are being implemented. The passage of both kara and cures. In fact, as a result of kara patients suffering from Substance Abuse now have great
Okay. It is a small reprocessing facility and we wont play that game. So i dont want to be reassuring because when i talk to a Nuclear Engineer and they tell me that Nuclear Plant is perfectly safe i get nervous. There are things that can go wrong. There are things that iran could try. But we have spent years to negotiate this agreement to make sure if they try, we will catch them. And the chairman and people know this very well, the framework for north korea was four pages long. The agreement that george w. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and john bolton negotiated with the North Koreans in 2005 for denuclearization with no provisions at all was five pages long. The treaty of mosque ow between bush and putin was three pages long. Had no verification provisions and got 71 votes in the senate, all right. This is over 100 pages long. It is like no other nonproliferation agreement ever negotiated and signed. It pails only in compare an to the most detailed arms agreements with the soviet union a
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