Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
Which was the first time that farmers were asked not to produce. At first, people couldnt believe the things that he was proposing regarding that, but then as prices went up, they started to listen to him. And people still refer to them today as a genius secretary of agriculture. Explore the history and literary life of des moines, iowa, saturday at an eastern on cspan2s booktv, and sunday afternoon at two on American History tv on cspan3. Each week while parliament is in session we bring you Prime Minister David Cameron taking questions from the house of commons. This is the last session of Prime Ministers session before they begin their summer recess. Prior to question time, members are finishing up other business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. Question relating to commemoration of the first world war, respectful attention. Mr. Andrew stephenson. Number nine, mr. Speaker. The Northern Ireland office is committed to assisting in the delivery of the Governments
People reach for yield now, and is an impetuous toward bubble creation and certain Asset Classes . It can be. Thats why we are watching very carefully. Is there any one particular air yaur worrying about right now in terms of asset bubbles . I mentioned leverage lending and corporate debt markets, especially lower rated companies. I think we are seeing deterioration in lending standards. We are attentive to risks that can develop that banks or others may be taking on Interest Rate risk. If Interest Rates, when Interest Rates ultimately begin to rise, that if firms or individuals have taken risks and arent adequately prepared to deal with them, that can cause distress. Among the institutions that we supervise we are certainly looking at management of Interest Rate risk. We are using stress testing in this latest round. We had specific scenarios designed to look at how large banking organizations would fare if Interest Rates were to increase rapidly. And were focused on how firms are man
63 to 67 and human so below average will feel 70 to 81 around the bay. The north bay shows Clear Conditions although we have drizzle in green making its way over to san rafael and toward 101 but we still at top speed. Be careful because when the oil builds on the roads and it is moist we do not expect it to be slick but you have to slow down and be careful. It is slick. Over the Golden Gate Bridge we are at top speeds and into San Francisco this are no delays and a look outside this is our drive through berkeley westbound, the head lights coming to the maze and at the toll plaza it is wide open. You can see Clear Conditions, not too many folks are headed into work. Yet. Breaking news. Chevron says an Early Morning fire was a minor incident that started at 2 10 and out at 3 00 a. M. It was the lowest level incident. There were no injuries. Amy hollyfield reported seeing an ambulance go into the facility a short time ago and has not come out. We will have the latest at 5 30. The allege h