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today we will consider mayor anthony foxx to be the 17th secretary of transportation. established in 1967 department of transportation employs approximate 53,000 full-time employees and has over $72 billion in budget authority. if confirmed mayor foxx not only we be responsible for overseeing this important agency but you also be the principal advisor to the president on all matters relating to transportation. i know most of individuals here understand what an important position this is our country but every americans directly affected by our nation's transportation systems, including personal business travel, employment, the interstate movement of the products we grow, manufacture and purchase them and their impact on the overall health of our economy. specifically over 12 and americans are employed in the transportation labor force. that works out to just over 9% of the nation's entire non-agriculture workforce. the average american family spends roughly 17% of the total budget on transportation related costs. $1.6 trillion or almost 10% of u.s. gdp is comprised of tr

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today, charlotte mayor and newly minted obama cabinet member anthony foxx proclaimed today a day of reasonhas proven to offer hope for human survival on earth. ceo and president of concern women for america, penny nance joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: okay. so today is the national day of prayer and yet, this mr. foxx guy is calling it a national day of reason. what's going on there? >> well, i'm not sure. he comes from north carolina which has the 7th highest church attendance. clearly he's not running for reelection since he's up for transportation secretary. but you know, gk chesterton said the doctrine of original sin is the only one in which we have 3 1/2 thousand years of impeercal evidence to back up. clearly we need faith as a component and it's just silly for us to say otherwise. you know, the age of enlightenment and reason gave way to moral relativism and moral relativism is what led us all the way down the dark path to the holocaust. i saw -- i just got back from jerusalem where i saw the holocaust museum there where there was thousands and

today we are going to consider mayor anthony foxx. the department of transportation employs approximately 53,000 full-time employees and has over $72 billion in budget authority. would bemed, you responsible for overseeing this and you will be the primary advisor on all matters relating to transportation. every american is directly affected by our systems. , theding employment interstate movement, manufacture and purchase and their impact on the overall health of our economy. over 12 million americans are employed in the labor force. that works out to just over nine percent of the entire nonagricultural workforce. the average american family spends 17% of their budget on transportation costs. $1.6 trillion are 10% of the u.s. gdp comprised of transportation goods and services. even a state like south dakota is directly impacted by the decisions made by the secretary of transportation. the regulations produced iv d.o.t. have an impact on the ability of an industry leader in electronics located in south dakota to produce and sell messag