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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Water Infrastructure 20180112

Government officials testified about the infrastructure needs at recent senate hearing. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Today we are holding a hearing to highlight the importance of passing a new Water Resource Development act or werda during the 1 is 5th congress. It authorizes funding for the army corps of engineers Water Works Program which need past wedder today provisions. Prior congresses have too additionally passed werda on biannual basis going back to 1986. Unlike other contentious issues, historically, republican and democratic members of this Senate Environmental Public Works Committee, have been able to pass werda legislation. This is legislation that moves. Regardless of
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20140906

Rest of the room, collect questions in baskets just before the q a starts. At this point i would like to welcome john d. Bassett iii to st. Johns. [applause] looking forward to hearing from you tonight. I would not like to put together well to many folks here from henry county, bassett, thank you all, you share the spotlight in this as well. I could tell you about all the amazing awards beth macy has won for her writing, hello lehman fellow. But the real mark of her life as a journalist shines in a simple question. How many of you remember a specific beth macy story . How many of you remember young selena who made it to harvard with her whole community of Gainsborough Library patriots cheering her on. [applause] Award Winning stories about the somalis than to refugees that were coming to live in our community where children were going to bus stops where 12 languages were ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington This Week 20140210

Incident provided adequate storage and containment. In light of this catastrophic release, and have been many calls for robust inspections and controls. United water joins with those calls. Protein propagation of a spill of a water supply is critical. Service Water Systems are at the mercy of those located upstream from the water intake structures. Advance warning and notification is critical in any emergency response. Receiving timely notification can make a bad situation less bad and help mitigate the most significant risk to the public. A water provider may have no way to detect or respond to the presence of a contaminant and it is too late in in the system. Having two hours or one hour or even a halfhour can make a big difference repairing for chemicals that are headed toward its intake structure. Closing a structure and waiting until a threat has passed is not possible. These have to be balanced with threats to the community. ....

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