Three three times, twice to iraq and once to afghanistan. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, lets give one more nevada thank you for these nevada heros [applause] ladies and gentlemen nevada stands at a threshold. We live in a state that is transforming before our eyes, the 21st century companies, jobs and technologies that place us at the forefront of innovation and the new economy. Yet we still operate with decades old funding systems and an education structure that will eventually grind us to an inevitable halt. I know. I know that we have the ability, willingness and determination to do what is necessary. We all, i know, we all want to tell our grand children that we were the architects of the new nevada that we were here when nevada needed us most. Those before us rose to the challenges of their time and built a foundation of the state we all love. The centennial celebration highlighted those achievements. But tonight as we close the chapter on 150 years of history, this is our time
Give all three of our speakers a great hand. [applause] now bear with me. Were going to do a photo law. Im going to ask the speaker to come back up and guess what . We got the tshirt and a bag of chips. [laughter] come on up please. No, we dont have the bag of chips. I was just joking. What are we going to do april 9 . [applause] stand up. Okay. We will hear more about transportation infrastructure in our next session. Weve got that mayors transit roundtable starting probably at 10 30 right back in this room. We are adjourned. Thank you for coming. [applause] coming up tonight on cspan2 the Memorial Service for former u. S. Senator Edward Brooke of massachusetts. The first africanamerican popularly elected to the center. Senate chaplain barry black will lead to the service and secretary john kerry and delegate Eleanor Holmes norton are expected to give eulogies. See the ceremony for the Washington National cathedral at 8 p. M. Eastern. This sunday onto a day director of the Georgetown
Take your seats. Thank you. Cspan3 live today. Just waiting for the American Public Transportation Association conference to begin. Theyre in washington d. C. For their annual legislative summit. Take a look at some of the work recently in the house on transportation. Cq role call reporting recently on the first transportation bill of the new congress. They worked on that last week. The Passenger Rail reform and investment act approved by Committee Last month by unanimous vote and the Congressional Budget Office saying the bill would authorize 7. 2 billion in spending from 2017 to 2020 the biggest grant to amtrak. Were live in the american Transportation Associations conference. Had a great, great session already this morning, 7 30 this morning. Who was all in there eating breakfast . All right. All right. Listen, welcome to aptas 40th annual legislative conference and to our nations capitol. Yesterday was some great sessions, werent they with the mayor of washington d. C. And various
Of the sanctions it was a cig nif event for the United States as well. I would be happy to entertain questions on that when we get into it. So, theres been an awful lot of listening thats gone on. And what i would say is its broken down into a couple of themes. The first theme being this theme of balance finding the sweet spot. As ive said ive spoken to an awful lot of groups similar to this diverse groups, brookings tends to have a very balanced view of things more centrist so perhaps this program resonates. Weve tried to make it a balanced program, to try to reflect all the needs that are going on up there. But the second comment that i get most constantly when i brief this to groups, to the press and in particular to the other seven countries is almost the Immediate Response is wow. Thats rather ambitious. And it is. I will lay claim to our United States program probably being the most forward leaning, most Ambitious Program thats ever been proposed during a chairmanship of the Arct
In the United States, the United States government does not own industries. Now, some of the industries that are represented within the aec from other countries are at least partially or wholly owned by if state. Theres a state interest in having those countries in there to be able to develop things within the arctic. We took a different approach. First of all, because of our culture, once again, our government does not own industries. Secondly, if we start getting too close with industry, you start running into federal Advisory Committee rules that have to be complied with. So our choice, whether you like it or dont like it, our choice early on was to turn this over to the chamber of commerce in alaska. And the chamber of commerce selected three alaskan companies to be our representatives to the aec. And the aec has only just had its first meeting. So i think there are going to be some disputes on how the aec should be used. There will be questions about how we employ it. There will b