defazio: sure. i was already actively engaged with the biden administration in killing this stupid idea. and we did kill it. and beyond that, because of the dysfunctional senate, who follows the rules of the senator who has been dead for 10 years, which is absurd andry dick louis, we were told that that would violate the dead senator rule, the bird rule. so that was why it was not accepted. but we did kill this proposal and it was totally unworkable. mr. reschenthaler: let me get this straight. you had a witness -- you just called the rule stupid, that that same guy had an amendment to, to basically codify what you're saying. your own witness testified, you worked with the biden administration, but because of the bird rule, for procedural grounds, you said no. giving you a chance -- that's what you were explaining? mr. defazio: yeah. i call it the dead guy rule. and it's stupid. senate has a filibuster. they got the dead guy rule. it's going to cripplele a lot of legislative initiatives. it's abysma

defazio: ok. i remember mr.dloe, former economic adviser to the former president saying he really believed in the free markets because he wanted to do away with the jones act and i said, how is it free when we have to compete with the communist government of china? that is not the free market. that is an extraordinary number, 8, to 1200. extraordinary number. thank you. chair carbajal: thank you. we will now move on with an alternating approach. i will recognize ranking member gibbs. rep. gibbs: thank you, mr. chairman. the mr. cordero and mr. wilkins, as we have seen, the backups especially in the california ports, we see empty containers going back to china ensuring not turn around. mr. cordero, have you seen containers not be available to force? an mr. wilkins, are you seeing an increase in trade on the river system and within the waterways? so we can have an idea what is going on with exports. >> excellent question. i think number one, your commentary regarding express is key going forward. with regard to wh

and i can hardly wait to sit down with peter defazio towork -- to work on infrastructure. so thank you all for being here. thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. >> [inaudible question] >> following their meeting about that economic recovery plan, house democratic leader spoke to reporters outside the white house. this is about 20 minutes. ill morning or afternoon. good day to all of you. so, so delighted to be at the white house. i know i can speak to all of our colleagues when i say that. to visit with president biden and vice president kamala harris. in the chairs of committee who have a direct input for the biden the rescue plan that will be on the floor today. as we leave here we will go back to the capital. steny hoyer will take us to the floor. the chair of the budget committee will be conducting the debate this afternoon, early this afternoon so that we will have established the plan. on monday we will begin working on the specifics of the bill. hopefully in -- in a two week period, we will send something over to the senate. and this will be done long before the

defazio: that is good. mr. ben bordelon, when i was visiting your shipyard, you told me something about the acquisition that you are working on. he started out with an order for so many so you couldn't do forward purchasing for the engines were an issue. do you have any comments on the coast guard's contracting process without being too upsetting to them? >> the exercising of the claims in the contract -- we had some things come up that we worked with the coast guard with fundee could -- that is a great point. something the ship industry needs is predictability and vision going forward on budget, and awarding contracts that have test for us to evaluate. in a covid crisis. that is what our workers are looking for from an essential business standpoint, that we need predictability in front of us and budgets and appropriations help that for shipbuilding and our suppliers. >> ok. thank you. just one other question. we -- i think someone said we built eight ships last year, eight large vessels, commercial vessels. di

. >> thank you, chairman defazio and ranking member and members of the committee for the opportunity to testify today together were tackling the worst public health crisis in over 100 years in a financial crisis deeper than all previous economic disruptors combine in our industry is safe no 100 history in the absence of a federal plan until recent days with the biden of administration i want to recognize airline industry for working with unions such as required masked policies, airports and airplanes. receiving backing from the federal government on the mask requirements makes all the difference for fight attendance, passenger servants to ensure travelers comply. it's been difficult and combative at times without clear instruction to the public, we applaud faa administrator steve vixen for his strong order to make clear no second chances for passengers who fail to comply with crew member instructions and keep everyone safe. violators will face the federal penalty of $35000 and imprisonment the zero-tolerance policy is in effect through the end of march and we encourage the faa to ext

defazio, chairman of transportation and infrastructure. mr. defazio, please unmute. >> can you hear me now? you just disappeared. there you go. good. i'm pleased to be here today and testify on behalf of the entire package, which will provide vital assistance to tens of millions of americans. but in particular i'm here to address the portions of that came from my committee or related to my committee. you know, transportation workers have been hit particularly hard. quite a number have died. transit operators, flight attendants and other have died because they were working and serving the public. and we're looking at, you know, tremendous fall off in ridership. there's $30 billion in here for transit that includes -- some people are saying oh, it's just for the big cities. not just for the big cities. it goes from small cities, rural areas, intercity bus service which is critical for rural parts of my district and a lot of other members districts. and it also will help acquire lifesaving ppe for transit workers who still have the work if they'r

and i can hardly wait to sit down with peter defazio towork -- to work on infrastructure. so thank you all for being here. thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. >> [inaudible question] to americans quickly. this is 15 minutes. pres. biden: thank you for your patience. we had a very good but long meeting with the chairpersons of the house of representatives and it went to little longer. it went very well, thank you all for being here. i am accompanied by vice president and the secretary of treasury janet yellen and want to talk today about my plan. and the january job numbers came out today. while we are grateful for everyone who found work and is earning a paycheck, it's very clear our economy is still in trouble. we had just 6000 private sector jobs in the country last month, overall, we added 49,000 jobs. this at a time when we have more than 10 million people out of work, 4 million people have been out of work for six months or longer, and 2. 5 -- 2.5 million women have been driven from the workforce. 15 million americans are behind in the rental payments. 24 millio

defazio, the chair of transportation. >> when the president acknowledged me he said, you're next. he's committed to doing an infrastructure package. it will draw the elements of my invest act we passed on the house. we will do with climate change and create a hell of alot of jobs in this country. we will do it through massive job retraining, reaching out to communities that have been left behind and bring them in. and they are going to get good jobs. whoa, whoa. >> i want to make a, and on your question. we had, and i mentioned this to the present, a very-- to the president, very, very successful 116th congress. we passed four, five major bills to help people suffering from covid-19 in our economy. and we passed voting rights. we had equal rights. we passed hr one. we passed so many very big bills that the american people overwhelmingly supported, and they would not put them on the floor. we are going to move that agenda. speaker pelosi: just hold on a second. as i said originally, this is the american rescue plan. the biden american rescue plan. the next bill will be the recovery

congressman defazio is the lead sponsor of the bill. he has already put the bill back in for this session of congress. it's now house resolution 328 of 20 -- so it's called the financial -- wall street tax act of 2021. i actually have a copy of it from the last session here it is in again now he says, congressman defazio says that a financial transaction tax could, quote, help create a more level playing field for main street. with that backgrounds, the robinhood platform has more than 13 million users and most number of small dollar retail investors. if the federal governmentied a .1% transaction tax on the sale of securities -- and i know one of my colleagues mentioned this earlier, but i wanted you to expand more, how with that b 1% transaction tax on the safely securities affect your platform and the retail investors that are your customers >> thank you congressman and we would be happy to engage in this discussion much more in the future a ten basis point financial transaction tax would eat into the returns of our customers, which

may be making an appearance in the house transportation bill according to peter defazio saying that earwill be likely part of the massive transportation bill. that is on on the of ear marks for the regular government funding bill. many republicans say they oppose resurrecting the practice. >> it says something to the priorities of the congressional democrats. as soon as they get majorities, they want the corrupt practice of ear marks. they have contributed to out of control spending in washington, they contribute to the corruption of the washington swamp. >> ear mark supporters say by banning ear marks, congress is feeding its congressional and constitutional is suspending power to the executive branch. >> somebody has been deciding how to spend all this money the last ten years. it hasn't been the people that decided from the time of the constitution was written till about a decade ago. >> since the ear mark ban began a decade ago, the u.s. has added about $13 trillion to the national debt. neil? >> neil: incredible. the very thing it was supposed to address. thanks, rich. we're waitin

when the president met with house democrats he said quote, i can hardly wait to sit down with peter defazio to work on infrastructure and this is the next big piece. >> i'm sure you will be talking about today. >> but is it the next big piece or is the administration trying to figure out what the nextbig piece will be . >> i'll say our focus right now and the president's focus is on the american rescue plan and moving that, doing everything he can to move that through congress, to connect it with the public and why there's money needed to reopen schools, to get shot, to get tests up to the american people. >> .. >> .. he had a discussion with american public on television during a tall hall last night to determine what the next steps look like. infrastructure is an issue when he's had a long passion for and does believe it creates good paying union jobs and things that can be done in the clean energy jobs but we are going to focus our efforts at this point in time on the american rescue plan. >> the vice president said speaking of vaccines and distributional covid et cetera she said quote,

defazio tells me, to save jobs. next we're prepared for the recovery act to create many more jobs.> as i said, our hope would be that we would have bipartisanship. i think that having reconciliation -- the bill is necessary so that we know that we will guarantee that we'll have results and hopefully give us some leverage with the republicans. i hope that we can work together because we are going to work it through. >> i just want to say, first of all, you ought to remember, we passed four covid-19 bills with economic recovery and health with overwhelming bipartisan support. and then for whatever reasons, the republicans decided let's wait. we waited a long time, and a lot of people got hurt. and then we passed a $900 billion-plus bill in december, december 16th. that was an overwhelming bipartisan vote as well. >> my understanding -- >> let me finish. we call it reconciliation. there's nothing in reconciliation that precludes republicans voting for it. now, i want to say this was a unique meeting that i had in the white house just now, all of us had. over the last four years -- thi

. >> peter being chairman defazio. that's infrastructure. that's the build back better part. is more covid relief and covid public health infrastructure in terms of vaccines and schools and the like, but this is going to be a remarkable test of his leadership and democratic discipline to come back with another plan on its heels. >> this plan is building the bridge to the really big plan. i'm not trying to make it simplistic, but the reality is what they're planning next is going to be larger than $1.9 trillion. it's going to include infrastructure, a lot of climate provisions as well. they're still working through it right now. but what this underscores and i will acknowledge, i didn't recognize this in the opening days of the administration, given president biden's willingness to make deals is how different this white house is from the 2009 white house on how they look at economic policy, on how they view the politics of this, and how they view this moment as a convergence of how sharp that difference is. economically they learned the lessons of 2009. the recession went sign

and i can hardly wait to sit down with peter defazio towork -- to work on infrastructure.thank you all for being here. thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. >> [inaudible question] >> following their meeting about that economic recovery plan, house democratic leader spoke to reporters outside the white house. this is about 20 minutes. ill morning or afternoon. good day to all of you. so, so delighted to be at the white house. i know i can speak to all of our colleagues when i say that.

defazio, the chair of -- >> actually, when the president acknowledged me, he said you're next. and he's committed to doing a infrastructure package. it'll draw on the elements of my invest act and the moving forward package we passed in the house. we're going to deal with climate change and create a hell of a lot of jobs in this country, and we're going to do it through bobby scott's committee, massive job retraining, reaching out to communities that have been left behind and bring them in. and they're going to get good jobs. [inaudible conversations] >> whoa, whoa, whoa. i want to make a comment on your question. >> yes. >> we had, and i mentioned this to the president, a very, very successful 116 congress in the house of representatives. we passed very meaningful legislation, we passed four major -- actually, five major bills to help people who were suffering from covid-19 in our economy. we passed voting rights, we passed equal rights, we passed h.r. 1, we passed so very many big bills that the american people overwhelmingly supported, and mcconnell would not put them on the

defazio: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i know he's a new member of the committee. might even be brand new to the house. he said he couldn't find a single thing in this package that related to covid? oh, well, there is $110 billion for vaccines. for testing, which has been pathetic under the trump administration. when no -- oh, and personal protective equipment. i guess those things don't have anything to do with covid and the pandemic. let's get real here, the first gentleman spoke and said, we want to help schools. and this bill doesn't help schools. well, actually, yesterday, they tried to cut our funding for schools. we are putting in $170 billion to reopen the schools. it's going to be very expensive. new h vac systems -- hvac systems, new furniture. for this and future pects to be ready. to prepare. and they wanted to cut out $170 billion. they are for schools and we are not. by the way they didn't do anything for childcare assistance which is a huge problem for people during this pandemic. now, let's talk about a few things that are in here. cash payments, pr

and i can hardly wait to sit down with peter defazio towork -- to work on infrastructure. so thank you all for being here. thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. >> [inaudible question]

and i can hardly wait to sit down with peter defazio towork -- to work on infrastructure. so thank you all for being here. thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. environmental justice, solar energy, the climate crisis, jobs . this hearing is three hours. chair: we have an exciting day today. anytime we consider nominee to an important cabinet position, it there's our great attention

and i can hardly wait to sit down with peter defazio towork -- to work on infrastructure. so thank you all for being here. thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. >> [inaudible question] >> following their meeting about that economic recovery plan, house democratic leader spoke to reporters outside the white house. this is about 20 minutes. >> i wanted to see if it was still morning or afternoon. good day to all of you. so, so delighted to be at the white house. i know i can speak to all of our colleagues when i say that. to visit with pren

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