Delivering outcomes. Those kind of case studies will give, i hope, policymakers encouragement to try these kinds of publicprivate partnerships and to be able to move projects forward like we have seen in other markets around the world. Questions from the audience . One more. It has been in the news because of the recent derailment. Had you had positive train control it would have been able to stop before the accident. How are other countries doing . I i mean, do they have it in place . Do you no . Are we the ones lagging behind . Sure. Positive train control is 45 yearold technology. We are dealing with trying to turn a train at 50 Miles Per Hour slower than the cars on i95. A turn that was designed for freight system. We have to separate freight from commercial. Commercial is largely a straight line, and when you look, it really challenges the united states. Are we ready to do mega Scale Engineering Development . In a funding model like in mac 21 that has 27 increments . Were basicall
Anne, john and your wife dana congratulations and thank you and thank your families for your willingness to continue serving our great country. And again i want to thank the general and admiral for their accomplishments. General mille and admiral richardson are wellpositioned to build on that progress. I look forward to working with them and other d. O. D. Senior leaders as we drive change, build the force of the future and help the president with Real Solutions for the National Security challenges we face. Thank you. This weekend the cspan cities tours partnered with comcast to learn about ft. Laurderdale, florida. This was cultural tourism. When they would set up their villages along the way, the buses would stop because here was a tourist attraction. The seminoles camping by the road. So when they came into the Tourist Attractions they were getting food, a weekly allotment of food and they were also getting the rental of sewing machines where they could rent and use them when they l
The security implications of extending the Nuclear Agreement with china. Federal investigators say that the amtrak train that crashed in philadelphia on tuesday night killing at least seven people was traveling at 106 Miles Per Hour before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit is just 50 miles an hour. More than 200 people aboard the washingtontonew york train were injured in the wreck. Lawmakers gave their reaction during hearings and on the house and senate floors. Were going to show you just a couple of them now. Before we begin today id like everyone to keep in their thoughts and prayers the passengers, employees, First Responders, victims, families who were involved in last nights derailment just outside of philadelphia. A number of agencies in this bill, the department of transportation federal Railroad Administration, amtrak, philadelphias Transit Agency partially funded through the federal Transit Administration and the National Transportation safety bo
Not only is she a best selling author but shes releasing her new book today called move, putting americas infrastructure back in the lead. Thank you so much for joining us. The book really explains with compelling details many of the health costs and even social justice impacts of our outdated infrastructure system, and i want to get to some of those today. First of all, can you please give us a brief synopsis of where we are today and how were fairing versus other countries . So theres only one indicator in the transportation and infrastructure area in which the u. S. Is number one and that is number of available airline seats. Thats because weve made it cheap and we like to fly. Impact, americans like to fly. Europeans will take the train. Thats one reason we dont have a good enough rail system in america, Passenger Rail system. Otherwise, we are way down on the international indicators. My friend Rodney Slater whos here today former secretary of transportation, went to japan recentl
Were abandoned. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. We know that isil doesnt discriminate. Youre either with the terrorists, or theyll destroy you or sub ji you. Thank you. The two most powerful forces in the area are the Shiite Alliance in iran on the one hand, and the extremist sunnis on the other. Weve seen our friends, saudi arabia and others move toward what theyll expect as quote moderate islam, or acceptable islam, and embrace the brotherhood, turkey qatar and part of al qaeda. Had we done more to strengthen the more reasonable sunnis earlier in the process, perhaps saudi arabia would not be taking that action. The good news is there are reports in the last half hour that the number two commander in isis has been killed. I hope thats true. Well see. Mr. Chairman, you commented that isis has all this iraqi currency. Iraq should, of course issue new currency, making its own currency invalid. Many countries have done this. This is a process that is hated by corrupt politicians and d