Policies that stimulate the economy and share security and protect the nations health. It is already taken steps to limited regulatory obstacles on the energy industry, focus on Domestic Energy production and revive the coal industry. What can we expect from the new administration Going Forward . How will potential changes in Energy Policy and production impact u. S. Foreignpolicy . Where does this leave global experts to discuss all Things Energy please welcome our moderator for this panel jason grumet, the founder president of the Bipartisan Policy Center and his pedals to the stage. Sarah ladislaw, director and senior fellow, energy and National Security program at csis. Katharine macgregor, Deputy Assistant secretary for land and Mineral Management at the department of the interior. And joseph stanko, parker at hunton and williams partner. [applause] good afternoon everyone. Thanks for taking in here with us. Terrible, training, its awful out there. Good to be with you. Im delighte
Attorney general eric holder has announced that the new Justice Department initiative aimed at Building Trust between local Law Enforcement and the civilians they serve by providing training. He said the effort is a response to what happened after the Police Shooting in ferguson misery last month. The attorney general discussed the new initiative at the Justice Department last week. [inaudible conversations] welcome to all of you including the members of the media. Its good to see you all. I am delighted to convene this meeting of the sentencing Disparities Working Group attorney generals advisory committee. This is the group im charged with examining sentencing disparities and developing recommendations on how we can address them. I want to thank all the leaders who have taken the time to be here particularly the United States attorney Carter Stewart and all they been doing to advance the work that i believe to be extremely critical. I look forward to discussing their ongoing efforts
There is a Clear Strategy and plan in relation to that. Personally, i think that a lot more work needs to be done on what exactly the route map is in syria. Those are the particular issues that i raise in relation to syria. I want to make some progress with my argument, if the house will allow me. Isil is not simply a murderous organisation. As the Prime Minister said, it has ambitions for a state of its own a caliphate across the middle east, run according to its horrific norms. And values. That is why i believe, and established in the first part of my remarks, that we cannot simply stand by against the threat of isil. In acting against it we need to learn the lessons from the past. We should be clear about this with the british people. That means a comprehensive strategy humanitarian and political, as well as military, and, crucially, rooted in the region. Some of that work is under way, but i believe that much more needs to be done. There is a reality that the house must face up to
20. You probably heard about that when president obama announced cases of executive acts that would not only expand the deferred action program, but also expand it to undocumented parents of children and or other measures less novel shall be discussed as part of this program. And surprisingly, this move has proven extremely controversial and political, leading to denouncements against congress and lawsuits challenging the legality of the acts, including one by nearly half of the state join in the litigation. So in this program we wanted to situate the conversation on immigration executive acts into a broader context and include other areas of law such as health, environment, gay rights, National Security where the president has also been accused of acting as an imperial president. What makes todays program particularly exciting, therefore, is that it is bring together scholars writing on issues of separation of powers federalism, Administrative Law and legislation, and writes rights ac
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Terminate the program. Theyre saying, you didnt give us a sufficient reason. In the meantime, let me read a little bit of the judges decision. The courts simply hold that if they wish to take any other action, it must give a rational explanation for its decision. That a prior policy is illegal simply wont do it. Ken, is this their fault for not getting this right . I think this is going to be the travel ban 2. 0. It means we cant get kavanaugh on the Supreme Court soon enough. He needs to be confirmed as the new justice because this case may end up there eventually. The reality is there are three legal problems with daca. Theres a federal law with how agencies make policies to implement stac statutes. Its the Administration Procedure act. When both daca and dapa were
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