Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
White house in the east room. With 400 of his closest friends. Thanks to mary a parker. Emily wilkins is covering the biden campaign. Emily the Vice President began his day in delaware. He visited the grave of his son beau biden. He said his sons passing was part of the reason he decided to launch this third for president. He visited scranton pennsylvania and is now just leaving philadelphia. We are expecting him on the stage in wilmington, delaware. We do not know whether we will be able to have a president ial announcement at that point, but we are expecting joe biden to address the nation. David Emily Wilkins will be with us throughout the evening as well as she covers the Vice President s campaign. The markets have been watching the election closely. We turned to Abigail Doolittle for what they are telling us today. What are they saying. Abigail we have investors interested in stocks. A very big rally on our hands. The s p 500 up 2 , its best day since june. Investors wanting in. I
This congress and says they will start a war and wont like where it goes. This congressman says it is a horrible precedent for this institution. You are watching outnumbered. Im harris faulkner. Here today, emily compagno, miranda devine, leslie marshall, and in the Center Virtual couch, former wisconsin congressman and foss dominic Fox News Contributor sean duffy. It is friday east, people. Lets bring it. Sean, you know the people, many of them you served on the hill not long ago. Are we at a point where that only lasted for maybe 15 minutes . Sean as America Watches over the last decades, they often feel like its broken or doesnt work. Members of Congress Work well together on must pass legislation. I disagree with Maxine Waters on a lot of issues. Im a conservative, shes a liberal, but i know shes a nice person. We disagree on policy but like each other persoripping this conference apart and the congress of the park. It is the prerogative of the Minority Party to pick what members y
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Good morning. Welcome to the Wilson Center. Im the director of the Brazil Center here at the center. It is a pleasure to have you he here. This period is marked by i would say mostly difficult negative news with one good news at the very end of this period of six months which is the announcement of the agreement between the European Union 20 years in the making. Whether the agreement will be implemented remains obviously a question mark. There will be detailed negotiations now at the different elements of the agreement. Its a complicated matter, but its important that the agreement has been confirmed. Also quite important is the lift of veto the United States had on negotiations between brazil and the oecg geared towards brazi s brazils. This is a very important development. Was an accomplishment of president bolsonaros visit here in washington in april. Again, remains to be seen how the negotiations between brazil and the countries of oecg will develop. We know this was accomplished t