Energy needs and friendlier towards their environment. So why are we doing this . We have got to make the tough decisions. The tough decision has to be made in conjunction with our colleagues on the Senate Finance committee and all the members. I happen to serve on both committees that we need to have the revenues necessary to support a longterm surface transportation reauthorization. We have to recognize the realities of the current revenue flow into the Transportation Trust fund is inadequate as its based on the gasoline tax in the we have been very effective at bringing down the volume in regards to the use of gasoline and or efficient engines alternative ways so we need to look at ways we can have an adequate source so i hope he would be open to things such as carbon fees or other ways to get the revenues necessary but i know transportation is a bipartisan issue and senator inhofe has been one of the great leaders moving forward on infrastructure. Senator vitter also strongly suppo
Allow their employees to be able to help out as poll workers on election day and then to have sufficient training. Your report also talked about importance of access the information in languages other than english, including outlets in other languages, outreach to nonenglish media outlets, bilingual poll workers. I know weve made some effort in minnesota with voters with asian and Pacific Islander groups, and why our efforts so important . Want to stress, that the broader theme that the commission struck, and i think its well within its charge, is improving the Voter Experience for language minority voters to go to the polls and to find that theres nobody there to help them who can speak the language successfully. It is simply not consistent with our been the kind of experience to all of our voters, that all of our voters deserve. And as we pointed out, there is support by federal law, this congress has tendered to these voters and the statutes that provide for this protection are not
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. , 2014 ] hy trust fund is projected to become insolvent by the end of the summer. The effect would have severe impacts and my state of new york. New york has 628 federal aid highway projects for 2015 which requires approximately 2 billion for the funding. 40 of these projects are bridges that are in need of construction or repair. Without the new funding from the Highway Trust Fund to start these projects next year new york state would have to begin restricting the use of roads and bridges that are no longer safe or can no longer handle the capacity for which they were originally designed. This would result in detours, delays, problems getting things that need to be brought into our commerce. It means more time and money loss for businesses and families who are just struggling to make it in this tough economy. New york state is by no means alone. This will hurt every single one of her states and ripple your role whole Transportation Sys
I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Nugent i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts. The gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Kaptur mr. Speaker, i want to thank the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Mcgovern, for yielding to me. And also thank our Ranking Member of the defense subcommittee, mr. Visclosky of indiana, and our mutual friend and colleague, chairman bill young of florida, for their hard work on this bill. And it will benefit our nation, our men and women in uniform, our armed forces and all of those who are touched by what is contained in this legislation. Within the limits provided and despite severe cuts, this bill has been written in a bipartisan way by our subcommittee. I thank the members for working so collaboratively together. It is a model for this house and our committee o
Now a Senate Panel Examines the federal Highway Trust Fund which is expected to run out of money in august of this year. Chamber of commerce ceo Thomas Donohue told congress to gradually increase the gas tax to cover the shortage. Aflcio president Richard Trumka testified at this hour and 45 minute Public Works Committee hearing. Good morning everybody. Its so good to see you all here. This is such an important issue that we are discussing today. We are focusing on the maintaining federal funding for transportation, maintaining federal funding. That is what is at stake here for transportation. Ensuring the longterm solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and averting a major crisis later this year. We will hear from our witnesses who are National Leaders representing businesses, states and workers who build, maintain and utilize our Transportation System. I am so pleased to once again welcome tom donohue from the u. S. Chamber and richard sub one from the aflcio. I at least feel when they a