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CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today May 14, 2015

Discussion and help move transportation and infrastructure policy forward. Thank you very much, and i look forward to our discussion. Thank you. [ applause ] go ahead and sit in the middle. And rich, if you join us on the end there. Well have some q a here. Well chat a little bit and then time to open it up to some questions from you all in the audience. Thank you both for being here. As i said at the top, a host of issues where the chamber and the aflcio, organized labor do not see eye to eye. I saw mr. Trumka and on this issue there is so much overlap and the question is raised immediately, if organized labor and the Largest Business Group in washington are on the same page, why cant this get done. Maybe ill go to you, rich, first. Whats standing in the way . Youve looked at this issue and battled over this for years. Whats in the way . Its pure politics right now. In the past this was always a bipartisan issue. There wa ....

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CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today May 13, 2015

Not only is she a best selling author but shes releasing her new book today called move, putting americas infrastructure back in the lead. Thank you so much for joining us. The book really explains with compelling details many of the health costs and even social justice impacts of our outdated infrastructure system, and i want to get to some of those today. First of all, can you please give us a brief synopsis of where we are today and how were fairing versus other countries . So theres only one indicator in the transportation and infrastructure area in which the u. S. Is number one and that is number of available airline seats. Thats because weve made it cheap and we like to fly. Impact, americans like to fly. Europeans will take the train. Thats one reason we dont have a good enough rail system in america, Passenger Rail system. Otherwise, we are way down on the international indicators. My friend
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