The Chamber of Commerce, of course, is no stranger to infrastructure and transportation issues.
Profit in its industrial segment was up 11%, while energy infrastructure and transportation units booked profit increases of 13% and 35%.
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During Abdoulaye Wade's 12-year rule, Karim Wade held several ministerial posts simultaneously, including minister for infrastructure and air transportation.
During Abdoulaye Wade's 12 year rule, Karim Wade held several ministerial posts simultaneously, including minister for infrastructure and air transportation.
And yet both are dependent on an infrastructure of electricity and transportation that leads to oil spills, high asthma rates, contaminated water, etc.
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Civil engineers design and develop the construction of transportation infrastructure and water supply and sewage systems, after attaining at least a bachelor's degree in engineering and several years of experience.
Cars would alert each other of traffic jams and accidents while also talking to stoplights and other transportation infrastructure, alerting drivers and perhaps one day taking over the controls themselves.
Officials from the council (CEA) and the White House have kept mum about the report's findings, but we do know it will address the following issues: productivity growth, pro-growth tax policy, the fiscal challenges facing Medicare, catastrophe risk insurance, energy and infrastructure in the transportation sector, currency markets, international trade and investment and immigration.
Increasing oil production takes quite a few years, involving time spent on seismic studies, exploratory drilling, production drilling, as well as construction of infrastructure for transportation and refining.
We have enhanced security at our nation's airports and around other transportation systems and infrastructure.
"This is part of the back-to-basics discussion about what kind of environment business needs to operate, " says Janet Kavinoky, who directs lobbying and congressional efforts for the Chamber on transportation and infrastructure.
Power REIT invests in the embedded real estate of transportation infrastructure and renewable energy installations.
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The fund is the primary source of federal money for transportation infrastructure and the interstate highway system.
"It's an outstanding site, close to major road and transportation infrastructure, " he said, citing Route 611 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
It substantially restructures Medicare and cuts Medicaid, food stamps, and transportation infrastructure while reducing the top tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent.
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"We're going to hit a billion passengers by 2015, " says Janet Kavinoky, a lobbyist and transportation infrastructure expert at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Throughout the 20th century, the federal government invested in dams, transportation infrastructure and military installations that facilitated economic expansion and the emergence of new private industries.
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This shift to smaller-scaled cities, as Michigan State's Zachary Neal points out, has been conditioned by massive improvements in telecommunications and transportation infrastructure throughout the urban world.
China's involvement on the continent has increased dramatically over the past several years, fueled by Africa's growing demand for cheap Chinese products and the need for greater infrastructure investment in the African energy and transportation sectors.
We are encouraged by the progress made thus far and opportunities abound for us to work with potential partners to help the country improve its power generation and transportation infrastructure in addition to what we have right now.
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Cutts, in collaboration with Ashoka Fellow Katherine Lucey, is tackling barriers to better healthcare, including the lack of reliable electricity and unreliable transportation infrastructure, through participatory development initiatives like the installation of solar systems in rural health care centers and motorcycle ambulance programs.
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What that means is the road builders want spending determined by various assessments from the Department of Transportation and others of what's needed to maintain and improve the transportation infrastructure in the U.S. If receipts coming into the Highway Trust Fund fall short of those needs, the lobby argues Congress should close the gap.
Instead of over-funding and over-regulating critical infrastructure, liberalize networks like transportation, electricity, and telecommunications, and get spectrum out of the oversight of regulators so secondary markets can price, allocate and optimize it.
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Local governments could mine the data to understand how to improve road safety, decrease congestion and upgrade transportation infrastructure, says Goddijn.
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Mike Parker, assistant secretary of the Army, told the House Transportation and Infrastructure panel that risk is everywhere and impossible to eliminate entirely.
The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is reportedly looking at moving a new, six-year highway appropriations bill out of committee some time this spring.
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"None of those ideas have ever gone anywhere in the House or Senate, " said a House Republican staff aide to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Miller was chairman of the Natural Resources (now Resources) Committee, Mineta was chairman of the Public Works (now Transportation and Infrastructure) Committee and John J.
However, you do not recognise the efforts of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to provide the necessary and deserved investment for our nation's aviation system.
It will be spent on housing and transportation and infrastructure.
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