Biden unveils infrastructure plan tied to corporate tax hike
President Joe Biden unveiled a proposal for rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure of the United States, but the plan is longer on rhetoric than on actions on the scale required to rebuild and modernize roads, bridges, water systems, airports, schools, housing and other physical facilities, as well as the social infrastructure education, health care, scientific research.
In a speech at a carpenters’ union training center in Pittsburgh a city that symbolizes the collapse of American industry, not its rejuvenation Biden called his “American Jobs Plan” the largest public investment since World War II, and compared it to the building of the interstate highways in the 1950s and the space race of the 1960s.
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President, Council on Foreign Relations
George P. Shultz discusses his distinguished career and government service, from the Nixon and Reagan administrations to academia, and shares his thoughts on the present and future foreign policy directions for the United States.
RICHARD HAASS: Well, good evening. Welcome, one and all, to the Council on Foreign Relations. I m Richard Haass, president at the CFR, and I m pleased to welcome all of you to what is the kick-off event of secretary of state week here (laughter) at the council. And from that reaction, as many of you seem to know, Secretary of State Clinton will be here on Thursday, but tonight, however, we have the privilege of being with a former secretary of state, a former secretary of labor, a former secretary of the treasury and a former director of the office of management and budget, all for the same price. (Laughter.)