[background noises]■x [inaudible conversations] good morning the u. S. Senate committee were having a hearing tsafety board investigation and report i welcome the chair safety board director. Watchdog ensuring safety is a top priority for the transportation u. S. Department of transportation. Through its impartial investigation into transportation accidents the board makes recommendation have transformed transportation safety. Ntsb recommendations prompt action to require railroads to use positive controlto use seatl airlines to have well rested cruise. However the needs to continue to improve safety are ongoing but for instance run a weight near misses and close calls and aviation sector are far too frequent. We simply must do better. Derailment ive been less than a lacking of e requirements we are looking out for these longer trains and improvements. And that is refreshed rating in the drama in pennsylvania or three trains collided but receiving a crisis in the wa data we have fata
To call the roll. Uh, president collins is absent. Vice president shiota present. Commissioner beltran is on her way. Commissioner benavides is absent. Commissioner brunzell here. Commissioner carney here. Commissioner ferris here. Commissioner hakimi is on our way. Commissioner liu is absent. Commissioner mccoy present. Commissioner mosley present. Commissioner rothschild here. Commissioner schnur here. Commissioner shelby present. Commissioner. Streicher. Present exofficio. Sue diamond is absent. We have quorum for todays meeting. Also for the record, director of Cultural Affairs ralph remington. Uh, Deputy Director of programs alex leifheit are in attendance. Thank you. Um, are there any agenda changes. Okay. Seeing none. Uh, now for some Public Meeting instructions. Um, id like to welcome all persons interested in this meeting to attend in person at city hall from 416. This meeting is airing live on spike tv two. Comcast 26, astound 26 and at t uverse 99. You may also view the live
Commissioner mccoy present. Commissioner mosley present. Commissioner rothschild here. Commissioner schnur here. Commissioner shelby present. Commissioner. Streicher. Present exofficio. Sue diamond is absent. We have quorum for todays meeting. Also for the record, director of Cultural Affairs ralph remington. Uh, Deputy Director of programs alex leifheit are in attendance. Thank you. Um, are there any agenda changes. Okay. Seeing none. Uh, now for some Public Meeting instructions. Um, id like to welcome all persons interested in this meeting to attend in person at city hall from 416. This meeting is airing live on spike tv two. Comcast 26, astound 26 and at t uverse 99. You may also view the live stream on webex. While this Technology Grants us better accessibility for individuals listening to the meeting remotely, please be mindful that tech related difficulties may occur which could contribute to the gaps and delays as staff transition the tech. Please know that were doing our best a
Commissioner beltran is on her way. Commissioner benavides is absent. Commissioner brunzell here. Commissioner carney here. Commissioner ferris here. Commissioner hakimi is on our way. Commissioner liu is absent. Commissioner mccoy present. Commissioner mosley present. Commissioner rothschild here. Commissioner schnur here. Commissioner shelby present. Commissioner. Streicher. Present exofficio. Sue diamond is absent. We have quorum for todays meeting. Also for the record, director of Cultural Affairs ralph remington. Uh, Deputy Director of programs alex leifheit are in attendance. Thank you. Um, are there any agenda changes. Okay. Seeing none. Uh, now for some Public Meeting instructions. Um, id like to welcome all persons interested in this meeting to attend in person at city hall from 416. This meeting is airing live on spike tv two. Comcast 26, astound 26 and at t uverse 99. You may also view the live stream on webex. While this Technology Grants us better accessibility for individ
Im a senior fellow here at aei and the cultural and constitutional program. Im joined on this panel by two very distinguished writers, authors, thinkers. And im virtually blind from the late. So let me introduce our speakers Peter Berkowitz is the ted and diane taub, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. He has served as the director of the state departments policy staff and is executive secretary of the departments commission on unalienable. He is a 2017 winner of the bradley prize. He studies and writes about, among other things, constitutional conservativism and, progressivism in the United States, liberal National Security and law and middle east politics. He is the author and of numerous volumes with the most relevant for todays discussion. The book constitutional liberty, selfgovernment, political moderation, another book, virtue and the making modern liberalism and edited volume renewing the american tradition. Joining peter i is bryan garsten, whos a o