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Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Cutting Red Tape to Build Crucial Infrastructure, with Alex Herrgott

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

Politics, Energy, Healthcare, News, World, Society & Culture, Regulations, Finance, America, Freedom

4.616K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Alex Herrgott leads an independent federal entity whose sole focus is cutting millions of dollars in unnecessary project costs that environmental groups add, while slashing red tape and preventing anti-development activists from using the court system to prevent much needed economic recovery through acceleration of investment in our national infrastructure which provides immediate and lasting economic benefits for states, local communities and small businesses. Alex joined us to explain how the Permitting Council cuts through the bureaucracy and serves as a one-stop Federal shop to provide coordination across the Federal government for America's largest, most complex infrastructure projects.

Alex Herrgott was appointed by the President as the Executive Director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council on September 21st, 2018. Mr. Herrgott had been serving as the Associate Director for Infrastructure for the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) at the White House previously. Prior to his service with CEQ, Mr. Herrgott worked for Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma as Senior Staff from 2004-2011 at the Environment and Public Works Committee.

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0:00.0

We hold these truths to be self-evident.

0:02.0

But all men are created.

0:04.0

Because I remember Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.

0:07.0

Experts on what they're talking about.

0:09.0

This is the podcast for insights into the issues.

0:11.0

China, bio-terrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.

0:16.0

Breaking it down into simple terms.

0:18.0

We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.

0:24.0

Alright everybody, here's an exciting topic for you.

0:28.0

Permitting.

0:29.0

Alright, but I promise you this is more exciting than you think.

0:31.0

Because it has to do with your everyday life, how much your gas costs, how much electricity costs,

0:37.0

whether you even have electricity.

0:39.0

This is important.

0:41.0

Infrastructure is important.

0:42.0

You've heard for years now that we're going to have some big infrastructure bill.

0:45.0

What does that mean?

0:46.0

And what's in the way?

0:47.0

If we had a bunch of money, how easy would it be to actually build the things we need?

0:52.0

And how many unknown species of birds do we have to think about and protect while we do that?

0:57.0

And so there's a ton of federal regulations that inhibit that, but also protect our environment.

1:03.0

And so they're important and it's even more important to get it right.

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