[gavel sounds] sen. Wicker this full Committee Nomination will come to order. Order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations to key transportation positions. The nominees before us today are eric soskin, nominee for Inspector General for dp of transportation. Robert pmbing rimus, nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sara feinberg, nominated to be a director of the amtrak board of directors. And chris coose, nominated to be a director on the amtrak board of directors. The Inspector General of transportation oversees audits of the d. O. T. s programs with the end goal of ensuring our national frppings system is safe, efficient and effective for the american people. Eric soskin has been nominated for this Important Role. Hes a senior trial counsel in the federal Programs Branch at the u. S. Department of justice where he has served since 2006. During his tenure at the justice department, he hasing mored complex litigation an was chose fn a detail
Housekeeping to let you know that the lab captioning for todays event is available at american progress. Org live captioning. We have a tremendous conversation ahead of us with the california governor, gavin newsom. A fantastic discussion with our panel. I well get into the introductions a bit later, but i really want to provide some words of context to the conversation. On the final day of the Democratic National convention, it is only fitting to look forward and consider how we can correct the course of this country. The Trump Administrations response to the pandemic, black lives matter, frankly dangerous and reckless of our democratic framework has made it abundantly clear that right now, under this administration, we are on the wrong path. We are not just on the wrong path, we are heading backwards, dangerously backwards. So, that is why this conversation is so important, because we want to make sure that we are moving forward. And what is really critical to this conversation is le
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Election. The people get it. The democrats are playing for november 3rd. And were playing for the good of the people. Lou President Trump doing exactly what he should do, calling out exactly what he and the American People have witnessed and experienced over the past four years at the hands of the party of hate. No president has achieved more in his first term in office than has president donald trump. No prime president has been attd as viciously, nor had to contend with the massive effort to subvert and overthousand his presidency. No one overthrow his presidency. No one since president abraham lincoln. The radical left have attacked President Trump on his handling of the china virus at every turn. Theyve done absolutely nothing to help him and his administration fight the virus and the consequences. Nor the Chinese Communist party that unleashed the contagion on an unsuspecting world. In fact, the radical dems instead have embraced the chinese policies and embraced the communist chi
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