mr. palmer. >> thank you. can you see it on your screen at all? are you guys able to see that? >> supervisor fewer: we're doing this right now. >> well, good morning, supervisors, ladies and gentlemen. my name is lee palmer, and i'm the director of the california public utilities commission, safety and enforcement division. thank you for being able to speak to you about overhead electrical facilities -- >> supervisor fewer: excuse me, mr. palmer, do you have a copy of your overhead for the board members? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, do you have one? i don't think they have one either. thank you very much. >> so you should have three documents. one is the actual presentation. one is a pamphlet put together by the puc on the history of poles, and the other is a copy of our annual report. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, mr. palmer. please begin. >> during the presentation i will briefly review the regulatory rule of the puc while highlighting the structure

mr. palmer. mr. cohen. >> thank you, madam chair. first i'd like to address my question to ms. fulton. thank you for the good work you've done in new jersey, y'all seem to have been way ahead of the game. you've done super. why has new jersey been able to make significant progress toward improving school bus safety, the three-point safety belts, when it's been so difficult in other states? >> well, congressman, i will be honest with you, it makes a difference when the governor and the members of our new jersey congressional delegation make it a priority, continue to work actively educating the community, speaking out about it and speaking to our state legislators. we have had incredible support across the board from members of congress and the governor to say -- >> who is your governor? >> governor phil murphy. and this has been something that was important to him and important to our members of congress and they made it happen. listen, no one wants to wait for a tragedy, but when it happens, you know, that's an opportunity where people in a position to make a difference can choose to

mr. palmer. you.palmer: thank nhtsa found that 90,000 pedestrians under the age of 18 were killed in school, transportation related crashes between 2008 and 2017. do you know how many were struck going around the bus out of the 97? national transportation safety board, does anyone have an idea? there is data available on the crash statistics. portion estimates are a of the numbers you are looking at. we have three ongoing investigations in three different states where we are looking at the high-speed roadways. rep. palmer: how many of these fatalities were the result of people going around the bus as opposed to the bus actually running over the child. you have both of those situations and the reason i bring that up is in reading this -- the testimonies, one testimony pointed out that the passing of stop school buses during loading and unloading is illegal in all 50 states but it is reaching epidemic proportions. 105,306 school bus drivers in 38 states reported almost passedds of drivers have scho

mr. palmer, can i circle back to the pricing issue, the m&a issue? we are at $1500 now. want the business to be sustainable at $1200. that gives you a pretty good cushion right now. prices are rising. in the medium-term, if prices stay where they are now, what are you going to do with that extra money? where do you see it going? you've already done a pretty big piece of m&a. i'm assuming that is going to be further down the list. are there dividends, buybacks? what is that going to be used for? tom: we are going to maintain our capital allocation discipline. our first focus will be on reducing debt. if the cash comes through, it will be reducing debt, ensuring that we have the cash available to grow our business with the projects we have in our pipeline. we wouldn't be changing the sequence of implanting those cashcts, but ensuring the is available to support those projects. reviewing our dividend policy would be the next step. guy: mr. palmer, thank you very much indeed for spending time with us today. enjoy the denver event. tom palmer, the newmont goldcorp president a

mr. palmer: we cannot afford to give additional resources to a program that clearly duplicates 13 other programs and has a marginal impact at best. the authorization program in 2016 should not be resurrected. i urge my colleagues to oppose and i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. rush: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. upton: i just would like to -- you may want toll hold your time for a moment. i want to make appoint this is an authorization that the level of spending will actually be determined by the appropriations committee, not ours. but i would like unanimous consent to put a news release into the record from e.p.a. aking the point from administrator wheeler that as this report details the dera program is an innovative way to improve air quality and providing children with safer and reliable transportation to and from school says administrator wheeler. 10 million older diesel e

mr. palmer's questions. >> thank you madam chairman. ig -- thank ochoa in >> europe ochoa. written >> testimony ochoa thank you. what do you make a point and your conclusion appears that appears to say that the procedures of the gsa followed and the historic properties it's consistent with the other allegations. reaches it says, the tsa has acknowledged that the file found of the issue of potential breach and gop oh and the provision. however, the fact remains that the gsa continues to provision in other resort properties which are basically doing what they always do and it's almost like a cut and paste arrangement that occurs in 2013. is that accurate? >> are you asked me about the origin of that anguish? >> no ma'am, i'm asking of this consistent which appears that you think is problematic that the gsa has operating procedures for these the store properties. >> the point of the sentence that you're reading to me was that tsa has told us that if there is a constitutional violation found it have to go back and revisit whether it was a breach. they still have the same langua

mr. palmer. >> thank you, madam chairman. one of the things i want to point out as we talk about this and talk a lot about the fact that the gas tax hasn't been passed since the 1990s. we started to pass corporate fuel economy standard and there's unintended consequences. as we passed the cafe standards raising the miles per gallon requirements for automobile manufacturers, we didn't take into account that as the fuel efficiency increased, fuel consumption would go down and thus the revenues would go down, and so congress is somewhat -- i won't say somewhat but very complicit in the problem that we're experiencing right now. we didn't take that into account. the other thing that i think we have to take into account, and there's a report from the texas transportation institute which i believe you're affiliated with, that once out the problem would delay costs. the report cites three projects, a small project which was a rural road, a medium sized project for the u.s. highway 59 and the large project which was interchange on i-

mr. palmer's home or his friends house or something like that.ll try to black ball by going to the address, waiting outside with a clipboard and piece of paper i'm taking names. that is pretty un-american, if you think about it. folks in hollywood who have spoken out about those kind of tactics in the past, mccarthyism should probably look in the mirror. steve: those people in the hotels better make sure they wind up on the right shuttle bus, they will wind up at lax, just saying. reporter: the other thing if it's a hotel here in beverly hills, i want to ask ainsley, how much do you have to leave the housekeeping staff? i'm hear you say you give 15 or 20 bucks. that is very generous. that is a lot of money, out here in beverly hills i will have to leave 75 bucks when i check out. ainsley: what? do you really? you're being generous. reporter: what is the going rate? ainsley: i leave about 20, i think how hard they were working. i remember when i couldn't pay my bills. brian: usually leave the room a mess. ainsley: i don't ever leave the room a mes

palmer, and vin scully, friends i try to emulate. i swear my name is going to look like a misprint on this list. mr. president, thank you for including me among this incredible group of people. [applause] president trump: congratulations to jerry. also johnny, congratulations on your marriage to a great golfer. who's here today. thank you, everybody. it's a great honor, a great man, a great pleasure. and you're going to be around a long time. thank you. [applause] president trump: thank you very much, everybody. >> c-span recently visited milwaukee for a look at the preparations underway for the 2020 national convention, which will be held july 13-16. here's a look. milwaukee is on the shores of lake chicken, or as i like describe it, the fresh coast. this horribly best known for gear -- beer, but will be the center of attention like 2020 has the democrats pick their next candidate. >> we're at fiserv forum a brand-new arena for the lw

palmer and vin scully. friends i try to it -- emulate. mild -- my name is going to look like a misprint on this list. mr. president, thank you for including me among this incredible group of people. [applause] president trump: congratulations to jerry. also, congratulations on your marriage to a great golfer. thank you everybody. it is a great honor, a great man, a great pleasure. you are going to be around a long time. thank you. [applause] >> in alabama, there were millions of the -- in the storm's path -- >> thank you very much. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, former republican congressman and current nra board member bob barr discusses efforts to reduce gun violence. women iniscussion of the republican party. with democracy alliance senior advisor julie kohler. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. and live friday, a discussion about updating the 1996 communications decency act, which gives websites in immunity from liability for what their users post. we will b

at the top of the page from mr coates asked the question, when people voted for brexit, they we re when people voted for brexit, they were voting for palmerre trying to limit the ways in which parliament can expose it to you because you disagree with them, etc. mr johnson it to you because you disagree with them, etc. mrjohnson then responds and the court will want to read all of this but can i highlight at the bottom of the page, the final paragraph, the prime minister says this, "just to get back to parliament, which i bet you are going to ask me about, just to get back to parliament, i am afraid that the more our friends and partners think at the back of their minds that brexit could be stopped, that the uk could be kept in by parliament, the less likely they are to give us the deal that we need, and so that is why i really hope that mps will allow the uk to do a deal, get ready for a no—deal brexit, and that is the best way forward for our country, believe me". this was immediately after prorogation, the 30th of august 2019. the electronic number, lord pannick is 464. yes. i am very grateful and i'm terribly sorry about this. it is 63

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