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[inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. first of all i want to thank all of you for being here today and thank ranking member cardin and his staff with the flexibility for the scheduling of today s hearing. it s interesting because ben cardin and i are maybe three of the last remaining of the class of 1987. we had lamar smith and a couple more. anyway it s funny we are an opposite sides and a lot of issues but we are artists together in friendship as well as infrastructure. as this week s infrastructure week it s a great opportunity for us to highlight the critical needs we have in this country pay tomorrow the full committee will have the chance to question secretary chao on the administration s priorities and it s my hope that today s hearing will be a productive lead into her visit. last congress the epw committee led the charge to pass the fast act, the highway reauthorization bill that i personally worked on and this was the largest one since ....
the hearing will come to order. first of all we want to thank all of you for being here today. i want to thank my friend, ranking member card and his staff for the possibility with the scheduling of today s hearing. it s interesting because been card and i i maybe three of the last remaining of the class of 1987. we have smith in a couple of more. it s funny, were on opposite sides and a lot of issues but we are always together in friendship as well as in infrastructure.et is this week s infrastructure week it s a great opportunity to highlight the critical needs in this country. tomorrow the committee will have a chance to question secretary chad on the administration s priorities and i hope today sin hearing will be a productive lead into her visits. last congress the pediatric committee led the charge to pass the past act a six highway reauthorization bill that i personally worked on. this was the largest since 1998. nobody believed we could get it done and other ....
couple leaked online stolen from the olympic gold medalist s phone profiling some other high-profile celebrities and what they re saying they ll do. i m up all night to get lucky powerball fever hits a new high. the second largest jackpot ever now soaring to $700 million. the rush to buy the winning ticket ahead of tonight s drawing, is it your lucky day? we re up all night to get lucky we re up all night to get lucky good morning, america. yes, excitement growing for the powerball this morning. lines already growing across the country. in new york, nevada, pennsylvania and more and, george, you ll get in line. i ll finally break down and buy a ticket. we ll have a lot more coming up. but we begin with that fiery rally in phoenix last night. president trump unleashed, what a dramatic shift from the somber commander in chief the night before. remember he called on the whole country to come together in unity but last night he was angry, he was raw. he was ....
lemonade gold medalist s phone profiling some other high-profile celebrities and what they re saying they ll do. powerball fever hits a new high. the second largest jackpot ever now soaring to $700 million. the rush to buy the winning ticket ahead of tonight s drawing, is it your lucky day? we re up all night to get lucky we re up all night to get lucky good morning, america. yes, excitement growing for the powerball this morning. lines already growing across the country. in new york, nevada, pennsylvania and more and, george, you ll get in line. i ll finally break down and buy a ticket. we begin with that rally in phoenix last night. president trump unleashed, what a dramatic shift from the somber commander in chief the night before. remember he called on the whole country to come together in unity but last night he was angry, he was raw. he was divisive and deceptive and lashed out at the media and went back at charlottesville saying his words were, quote, ....
bit here as we take you live to the u.s. capitol. senators are speaking this morning on the nomination of scott pruitt to be e.p.a. administrator. good morning. at this moment we re in the middle of a 30-hour debate on the nomination of scott pruitt to be the next administrator of the environmental protection agency. those 30 hours would expire at 1:00 p.m. today because the debate began yesterday morning at 7:00 a.m. but the truth is we don t have all the information we need in order to make an informed vote on this nomination. and we don t have the information because the attorney general of oklahoma controls access to emails and other communications that are relevant to the decision the senate is going to make under its responsibility under the constitution. senator merkley: for two years now, the attorney general of oklahoma, scott pruitt, has stonewalled attempts to make public the records of over 3,000 email communications with members of the fossil fuel industr ....