86 we moved to miami and has been there ever since but it's a good place to the rink a member of the environment public works committee and house transportation and infrastructure committee chairman bill shuster.

because of precious time into busy scheduleandbusy schedules e the first speaker. senator tom carper is the ranking member of the public works committee, for to take a former congressman from delaware. he was elected the 78th governor. thank you for joining us today. [applause] do we have any veterans here? stand up and received applause. [applause]

spend 23 years in southeast asia "-begin-double-quote you and different parts of the speech i enjoyed but delete the -- we love the secretary of education. [applause] [inaudible] one of the things he reminded us of the remains of the fallen heroes come through dover air force base and we treat them and their families with great

dignity. remember the chance to remain enabled seals -- navy seals. one of my favorite things about the senate is the state of the union and it'union and it's note the speeches. whoever wrote one for the president last night didn't write on the one from the inauguration. [laughter] people have different expectations. before we gathered together for dinner, the senators do and we

have several rooms into tables and invite special guests. i invited a woman who was a cancer survivor saved by the affordable care act when no one else would provide coverage for her but before we talk to the house of representatives there is a rush to the restrooms since you will be sitting there for a couple hours. we were talking about what we were expecting and he just said i hope we are not at war with canada by night.

[laughter] i set my alarm to wake up ethnic night and all clear. i love to take customer calls and i g got to the businesses al the time. what can we do to help. i'd love to go to schools and especially enjoyed town hall meetings with kids in all the way up to college. in q-and-a kids will say what do you do and i will say i am a united states senator. but what do you do?

[laughter] do you have rules on your school bus and at home i said well we have some for the country called laws and i get to help make the rules for the country. he said what else do you do? [laughter] i said i try to help people and he said how. one of the best ways is to make sure people have jobs. the rest is pretty easy.

the other night we were in session all night and about 10:00 at night i went to go for a run or lift weights or ride a bike. about 10:00 at night we were going until something for 30 a.m. so i had some time to run and it was a cold windy night. i ran down to the lincoln memorial and got down there about 10:30. it was windy, the moon was out you could see the stars, the lights reflecting. i ran up the steps of the lincoln memorial looking across the way at the capitol. how many have ever been there x. if yogive it to a link to your ? on = the night. i read on the walls on the gettysburg address the second inaugural address in things like

[inaudible] all these great words and i stood right where the statue is and he is looking up towards the capital and washington monument and so was i. and i said a few things to him and he didn't speak back. one of the questions asked a long time ago was what is the role of government and he said to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves. to do for people what they cannot do for themselves. there is great wisdom in that. one of the important things we do for state, local, federal is create nurturing jobs. in eight years as governor more

were created than in delaware history. we try to create a nurturing environment, high school, technical school, community college. public safety is a big deal, protection against cyber attacks. we have some potential for consensus in the congress and this administration with respect to infrastructure, which is a good thing because as you know, on the transportation infrastructure we need help. we passed that and provided funding and i thought between you and me shamefully it was

putting together some money and being able to live until 2020. it's better than shutting down and not have any money at all. when mr. trump spoke last night about infrastructure and how we need to do more, we want to make sure we raise a lot of private sector money to do these projects and the part or ships come is rebecca here? give her a nice round of applause. [applause] she's on the public works committee and was reminding me

on the way here the last 30 years the public-private partnerships into the creation of major improvements but to say that is how we are going to pay for this stuff, probably not. i'm just going to talk about the stuff that nobody ever talks about and that is how to pay for it. you all heard the old saying there is no silver bullet. i feel that way for help to pay for this but also on the airport side that needs help as well.

we used the idea on the infrastructure to help pay for it. we have been doing that for a long time. even if it is a user's fee for a fellow whose name i won't mention and then they have the most radical people that show up on the democratic side because you took a position to say we are going to fund our transportation. i want to mention a couple ide

ideas. i want to mention a couple ide ideas. there might be a possibility there. they are so good. i was amazed going forward they have their own ideas of the attacks at the pump to move upstream if you will end it

might give some political cover to be up front talking about user fees but the former governor of ohio, i suggested the commission they adopted and one would be the indexing. anyone been through delaware? thank you. we have more five-star than anyone in america. we are open for business.

as you are going down the i-95, it used t to the awful until we went to the speakeasy pass and people used to pay four or $5 wait for the privilege of getting to the toll. he hawe have anybody here from t virginia? one of my great grandfathers still like to go here. we would drive on the west virginia turnpike 12 or 13 miles and stop. it keeps us away from all that so that skipping the states more

flexibility and can be used in conjunction. last year as you may recall it's the way that they are given to bring it back to 15% or so it used the money pretty much one time. it's not like the baseload, the natural gas baseload. and the repatriation piece in

the senate and the house. the problem with that it isn't a baseload, it is one time and i can think of any number of projects from state and locals l since the private sector and that would be good. the last thing i want to mention a, big car aficionados, we lost the chrysler plant in the gm plant, but one i had interesting was the chevy volt and as you know, it has the ability to run on a battery for maybe 40 miles

and go on gas. they can do about 200 miles and i hope they buy a lot. they are not going to use them in diesel fuel. there's going to be more.

let's see if we can't get states to do some of that. we are going to see what we can come up with. we might be onto something here. if we can develop autonomous vehicles all the way across the country maybe it would generate

at the federal level and state and local level. folks in states voted in wyomi wyoming. how do they do it overwhelmingly, they one. but in washington people were voting for these because they were unable to vote and we don't have the earmarks anymore. the idea to enable the members for the fee.

this is the city and in delaware genitals the half a lot of press conferences and groundbreaking on projects that are funded and we make it clear that about 80% is where it comes from. born in west virginia in the navy and solve the world we are lucky to be in that state that works to communicate, compromise and it works pretty well for us.

the last couple months folks have said we have to be careful. what the president says last night the words were right although he was reading off a teleprompter he did a nice job of delivering them. people may not believe what you say that they will believe what you do. i know a little bit about budgeting but i was troubled about what the president called for in the tax cut wit was a mae

buildup in the military and the grateful. you're not going to believe the spend more in this country on defense then two countries combined or five, 67 combined. two weeks ago the government accountability office put out those wasting money, $400 billion of money weapon systems. to actually have clean financials. the ability to manage so it is a

lot of money to that area and i hope we will keep that in mind. the chinese symbol for danger is the symbol for opportunity. we fought a civil war in this country and at the end of the te president was assassinated and his successor somehow we got through that. people that wrote the constitution were pretty smart guys. it's worked well. keep in mind in the states we

can keep those in mind. god bless you. thank you so much. [applause] i have my prepared remarks in case you needed them. >> thank you for everything you do. i want to welcome the house transportation committee chairman bill shuster a champion of transportation working to enact among other legislative accomplishments who served on the transportation and infrastructure committee since coming to congress in 2001.

he served on the committee of railroads, pipelines, hazardous materials and is the chairman on economic developmen developmentc buildings and emergency management as the chairman of the committee, he will have a huge role in helping the administration and leadership navigate. please welcome to the podium chairman shuster. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> by staff some notes in front of me that i am going completely off the script. i thought the president did a fantastic job last night. we were high-fiving each other and the whole speech was great for folks like myself talked about infrastructure again and as i'd like to tell people in the first i could find but said in the inaugural address he used the word infrastructure.

thank you for having me here, i should have started by saying that first. my secretary is here. raise your hand, there she is. [applause] >> the senator mentioned his secretary at couple times and i thought i ought to do the same. i got the project in my district and we are on different sides of the political aisle but when it comes to transportation there isn't much daylight between us. it's about building america's infrastructure and we have tremendous needs out there. the president said it again and again i've been down to the white house twice in the last two weeks for small meetings with the president and of course i bring up infrastructure every chance i get.

he knows what it takes to get a project done and there is a great example on pennsylvania ea avenue the local post office building, the trump hotels dot the bid before the time was to be completed in under budget and that is the kind of thing that he's going to get done. let me just focus on what we need to do to move forward with this infrastructure. the president said a trillion dollars. it's not going to be a trillion dollars coming out of washington, d.c. but there has to be more money coming out and that is how we get there. there are billions of dollars out there today, private sector dollars. hwe talked about two pipeline projects to the constitution pipeline and the atlantic

sunrise, to pipelines in pennsylvania, $4 billion of private investment and the corps of engineers and other government agencies are holding up the projects. if the core signs off we are talking about $4 billion of private investment to a couple other states that can be done. i was in florida which is a $1.5 million project waiting on the core to sign of off and thes a project in california waiting not on federal dollars that the loan not for all of that portion so there's billions of dollars of private sector money and the president is talking about these kind of things and i bring these up every chance i get. he has a great policy and they can't tell you how grateful i am when the white house talked to me at the criteria it's number

one, have the experience to run something big and she did that. know the transportation issues in that department. it's a family-owned maritime business and her work as deputy secretary transportation under first president bush and they are being politically smart. she has all those qualifications. so some of us are getting frustrated because for her and her team you need even with ten players owithinplayers on the fd she has about 40. she's supposed to be the coach but she is the quarterback and walking and getting it all so we need to get them on board so that we can move forward on the programs and projects. there's there is a list out thei have said to the folks at the

white house tell me that is what the president's list because 50 projects are not going to get the members of congress and 50 legislators to back his plan so i said over and over it should be something like 500 we should look at every stage and say what are the projects that will bring two thirds of the state. 81 is one of those and those that are in new york, maryland, virginia and tennessee, 81 is a project that is extremely important to the health of the economy and it needs to go not just in pennsylvania that whole span so when we are making a list of projects we need to go to department and say what are the seven, eight, ten projects that can bring all of the

members of the house together to say this is important for pennsylvania and america and that is what we have to do. we have to get on board again anytime you have an opportunity to talk to the folks in the east positions that has to be a 50 state solution on the playing field. some of you in this room have done just that. talk to the legislators and bring them along for the increase in revenue on themselves. it's working together identifying the projects to say we need to get the revenue. how do we get the revenue? how do we get that revenue, it has to come from other sources. it's going to tak take the statf things in washington.

there is no one silver bullet. everything has to be on the table and i'm proud to say of all the partisanship in washington, d.c. i think one of the things that brings people together. whether it is delaware, pennsylvania, california, maine the all need to see that investment. so, how we get those dollars it's going to be in all of the above solution and take all of you in this room working with this administration and delegation in congress to come up with solutions to move the national legislature in house and senate to address the problem in funding. i can talk about a lot of things we are going to do in the committee. but the biggest thing is going to be the infrastructure package. and it will cover everything. transit, highways, aviation, pipelines.

there's going to be some things that are not in my jurisdiction that will cross into that bill. infrastructure whether it is the electric grid or broadband in the areas to make sure we are developing that. i think we need to have a big broad bill again in the transportation business. on the legislation to move forward i welcome all to get on board. but again, being here in washington is extremely important making sure that we have a couple of roundtables with former dot folks that have gone through the process of how they get revenue increases and the folks on my side of the aisle sometimes we are a little more stubborn but everybody knows that a test to be an investment in the infrastructure and the president hit the nail on the head on a lot of the

areas but when it comes to infrastructure he will take the message to the hill and i urge you every time you talk to someone in the administration, i know it is your own state but we have the others on board to get this done. i appreciate you being here, i have a lot to do today, we have a couple of hearings and a lot of folks that want to talk about infrastructure. thanks for having me. secretary, i hope to see you soon, sooner than you may want me to be. but thank you very much. i appreciate it. [applause]