[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
This full Committee Nomination will come to 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 detailed assignment as policy counsel in
This full Committee Nomination will come to 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 detailed assignment as policy counsel in
Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
Approach to these. Thank you. Just to be clear this proj effect is more about the customs right. To try to speed up between the back and forth with the countries in the new dawn of north america so thank you. Thank you senator. Thank you madam chair. Thanks for having this important hearing on movement of freight when i think of this issue i think so much of Washington State and all the product thats come through on their way to asia. And we have in a short period of time seen Something Like a doubling in the sides of the ships over the last five years so yes, we have a lot more capacity and we obviously have a rising middle class in asia and they want higher they want more u. S. Products. So the question is what are we going to do to meet that demand as it relates to improving our mobility board which was chaired by mr. Downey. I think somebody from the Railroad Association at least participated in that. The question is how do we move forward on those recommendations and would you sup