the risks of both Chinese and proposed Lower Mekong projects the region's hard-won peace, stability, and the longer term prospects for susta...
the initial impact of American reengagement in the Mekong and the wider Southeast Asia region has been working to the benefit of peace and s...
it is profoundly disturbing in its implications that--on a lot of different levels--environmentally, politically, culturally, strategically-...
Hopefully we can move forward to some sort of a structure in which we can start having an impact on these issues.
From a regional peace and security perspective, the worst aspect of China's Yunnan cascades is capability of the two biggest reservoirs.
I think this hearing will help bring greater awareness, here and in other places, of the immediate seriousness of this problem.
I was really gratified to see, recently, just over the past month or so, after we, in our country, began discussing this issue a little more...
Whenever we get to the point where we say, that couldn't happen in America because of the processes we have set up, well, that is a very dif...
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has done some extraordinary things, but the real leader in public-private partnerships has been the Commonw...
Infrastructure, now becomes a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis nations around the world.
To ignore the needs of the electric grid, to ignore the needs of broadband... there has to be broadband buildout.
I would like to thank the panel for their very good comments.
If we do not do something about infrastructure in this country, we are cooked as an economic power.
We have seen a 50 percent decline in infrastructure investment in America as a percentage of our GDP since the 1970s.
We need appropriate regulatory oversight, but sometimes this becomes a transaction cost that makes otherwise fundable projects not fundable.
the idea of the National Infrastructure Bank really means it is one tool particularly for some of these larger, more expansive projects.
the regulatory overhaul--the appropriate environmental reviews, other process reviews--becomes such an added transaction cost.
The only way we are going to maintain I-80 or I-95 through Pennsylvania or through Rhode Island is if we have the right to toll it.
