[laughter] secretary peter rogoff: many of you know that last year was a $302 billion bill so we can get away from all of these incremental extensions that number some 32 separate extensions that have been milking the program along for the last several years. last year we submitted a $302 billion bill that will freeze funding for 10 months. under president obama's leadership, we are doubling down. we are going to be submitting a six year 400 $80 billion bill that will bring overall funding that is closer to 60% and we say precisely what part of the tax code we would amend to pay for it, we would be helping the highway trust fund, and congress could say that they don't want to talk about it, we are to talking about others. but we need to act. we are doing it because we looked into the future and we can see what happens if we don't change our transportation policies and we don't change our funding trajectory. just a few weeks ago, we at the ot -- at bot released our traffic study, and i would encourage you to look stat it, it is at www.dot.gov, and it looks at all of the trends that we

i'd like to invite peter rogoff the undersecretary of transportation. thank you. i'm going to ask each of these panelists to give us a brief comment. then we are going to go into a series of questions around topics that are important to us in cities as well as within the realm of responsibility. mr. secretary? >> thank you and greetings to my colleagues here. i'm not going to get into things you know very well, like the importance of cities and the importance of cities in the context of our climate challenge. but let me focus on a few items in these opening remarks. of course, all of you have tremendous responsibilities in terms of managing a lot of the structure in this country. let me say a word about our quadrennial energy review, the first installment that we expect to have come out in a few weeks. this is a study that has been going on for over one year. across the administration. looking specifically at the issues of energy infrastructure. transmission, storage, and distribution of energy. that includes electricity, fuel and includes looking at reliability,

transportation undersecretary for policy peter rogoff, energy secretary and the epa's administrator followed with a panel-like discussion on each of their respective agencies' budgets and priorities. sally jewel spoke last and stressed the need for children to learn and play in the great outdoors. >>> good afternoon. again, welcome, everyone. [ applause ] we welcome you to this afternoon's general session. thank you to jimmy robbins for entertaining the crowd. and the city of nashville for bringing him to washington. thank you so much. let's give him a round of applause. [ applause ] this morning we were honored to be a part of a historic event for the national league of cities and its members. i believe this afternoon's session will be memorable in its own right. and very informative as well. we will hear from several representatives from the administration, as well as a thought-provoking panel discussion on infrastructure and climate change. it is now my pleasure to introduce our first speaker this afternoon. secretary of homeland security jeh johnson. [ applause ] >> i know from my experi

[applause] and finally i would like to invite to the stage peter rogoff who is the undersecretary of transportation. peter, thank you for joining us. [applause] >> i'm going to ask each of these panelists to just give us a brief comment and then we're going to go into a series of questions that are topics that are so important to us as cities as well as in their realms of responsibility. mr. secretary to you first. >> actually. >> it doesn't matter. >> mr. secretary. why don't you start? >> thank you, mayor becker and also greetings to my administration colleagues here. i'm not going to get into things that you know very well like the importance of cities and the importance of cities also in the context of our climate challenge. but let me focus on a few items in these opening remarks. of course, all of you have tremendous responsibilities in terms of managing a lot of infrastructure in this country. let me say a word about the core energy review that we expect to have coming out in a few weeks. this is a study that's been going on for over a year across the administration looking spe

and find that i would like to invite to the stage peter rogoff who is the undersecretary of transportation peter, thank you for joining us. [applause] >> so i'm going to ask each of these panelists to me just give us a brief comment, and then we're going to go into a series of questions. around topics that are so important to us in cities as well as obviously within the realm of responsibility. spent i think we are -- >> excuse me. >> doesn't matter. >> mr. secretary, why don't you start? >> thank you. and also greetings to my colleagues here. i'm not going to get into the things you know very well like the importance of cities and the importance of cities also in the context of our climate challenge. but let me focus on a few items in these opening remarks. off course all of you have tremendous responsibilities in terms of managing a lot of infrastructure in this country. let me say a word about the quadrennial energy review first installment that we expect to have coming out in a few weeks. this is a study that's been going on for over a year across the administration looking specificall

[applause] and finally i would like to invite to the stage peter rogoff who is the undersecretary of transportation. peter, thank you for joining us. [applause] >> i'm going to ask each of these panelists to just give us a brief comment and then we're going to go into a series of questions that are topics that are so important to us as cities as well as in their realms of responsibility. mr. secretary to you first. >> actually. >> it doesn't matter. >> mr. secretary. why don't you start? >> thank you, mayor becker and also greetings to my administration colleagues here. i'm not going to get into things that you know very well like the importance of cities and the importance of cities also in the context of our climate challenge. but let me focus on a few items in these opening remarks. of course, all of you have tremendous responsibilities in terms of managing a lot of infrastructure in this country. let me say a word about the core energy review that we expect to have coming out in a few weeks. this is a study that's been going on for over a year across the administration looking spe