Guiding Principles for Strengthening America's Infrastructure

  • Date: Monday, Mar 27, 2006
    060327_infrastructure.jpg At a National Press Club event on March 27, the CSIS Commission on Public Infrastructure, under its co-chairs — Ambassador Felix Rohatyn (pictured left) and former Senator Warren Rudman (right) — outlined the findings of commission members John J. Castellani, president, Business Roundtable; John J. Hamre, CSIS president and CEO; Dana Mead, chairman, MIT Corporation; Bernard Schwartz, chairman and CEO, Loral Space and Communications; John C. Whitehead, chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Frederick B. Whittemore, advisory director, Morgan Stanley; and Everett Ehrlich,commission executive director and former under secretary of commerce.

    Among its recommendations, the commission suggests a unified federal project for infrastructure improvement having the authority to finance projects with fifty-year bonds guaranteed by the federal government. The co-chairs released a document outlining a set of "Guiding Principles for Strengthening America's Infrastructure," which offers a policy framework to help meet the goal of a stronger physical infrastructure.

    "Rebuilding America is an historic task," said co-chairs Rohatyn and Rudman. "We have the means to do it."

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    Guiding Principles for Strengthening America's Infrastructure, National Press Club, Washington D.C., March 27, 2006 (wmv, 42:31)

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