Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
Carter called on fan about the Spratly Islands and cease further militarization. Carter also expressed hope that the United States and china will reach consensus by autumn on rules to reduce the risk of accidents when the two countries aircraft operate close to each other. A court in china has handed down a life sentence to a former member of the nations top decisionmaking body for accepting bribes. The ruling comes as president xi jinping aims to show hes committed to taking action against widespread corruption. Zhou yongkang was the ninth highestranking member of the communist partys Politburo Standing Committee until november 2012. State run Xinhua News Agency says a court in tianjin near beijing sentenced him for accepting bribes, abuse of power and deliberately disclosing state secrets. He and his family allegedly took more than 20 million. Prosecutors indicted zhou in april. He was tried behind closed doors. Xinhua says the trial was not open to the public because it involved sta
Carter called on fan about the Spratly Islands and cease further militarization. Carter also expressed hope that the United States and china will reach consensus by autumn on rules to reduce the risk of accidents when the two countries aircraft operate close to each other. A court in china has handed down a life sentence to a former member of the nations top decisionmaking body for accepting bribes. The ruling comes as president xi jinping aims to show hes committed to taking action against widespread corruption. Zhou yongkang was the ninth highestranking member of the communist partys Politburo Standing Committee until november 2012. State run Xinhua News Agency says a court in tianjin near beijing sentenced him for accepting bribes, abuse of power and deliberately disclosing state secrets. He and his family allegedly took more than 20 million. Prosecutors indicted zhou in april. He was tried behind closed doors. Xinhua says the trial was not open to the public because it involved sta
Carter called on fan about the Spratly Islands and cease further militarization. Carter also expressed hope that the United States and china will reach consensus by autumn on rules to reduce the risk of accidents when the two countries aircraft operate close to each other. A court in china has handed down a life sentence to a former member of the nations top decisionmaking body for accepting bribes. The ruling comes as president xi jinping aims to show hes committed to taking action against widespread corruption. Zhou yongkang was the ninth highestranking member of the communist partys Politburo Standing Committee until november 2012. State run Xinhua News Agency says a court in tianjin near beijing sentenced him for accepting bribes, abuse of power and deliberately disclosing state secrets. He and his family allegedly took more than 20 million. Prosecutors indicted zhou in april. He was tried behind closed doors. Xinhua says the trial was not open to the public because it involved sta