Good afternoon, everyone. The House Senate Conference committee on hr 1, the tax cuts and job act kcome to order. Im deeply honored to chair this Conference Committee. The first tax reform Conference Committee in 31 years. To be here with you as we move forward with this historic effort. Before i deliver my opening remarks, i want to take a moment to welcome everyone in to discuss the format of todays meeting. Id also like to thank all the members of congress joining us today from both sides of the capitol and both sides of the aisle. I also thank all members of the house and senate and our professional staff who have worked so hard on tax reform for the past several years. In particular the member of the the members of the ways and Means Committee and senator hatch and the finance committee. We will begin todays meeting with the opportunity for each to make an Opening Statement of up to three minutes. In order to respect everyones time and ensure each one has the opportunity to speak
Ucla released a report earlier this year about challenges facing undocumented undergraduates get into the u. S. It is a survey of 900 undocumented undergraduates in 32 states who migrated from 55 countries. The coauthors joined a panel for a discussion about undocumented College Students in the u. S. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning. It is a pleasure to welcome you and for those of you who live in new york, you know this is a rare example of sunshine in the morning. And its not even freezing. Its a great pleasure to welcome you to the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education policy. I was thinking about our session this morning and how when i started the institute about 12 years ago. I kept looking up a word policy in the dictionary and if you ever do that, you discover it is a difficult word. Its hard to get a good definition. That is appropriate because when we think of policy we have an image in our mind with the definition is in the dictionary. In fact one of the misun
Leader that for very long time could not even get accredited to the United Nations but we fought for that and had that up she would not even have to read aloud into the meeting that now shes sharers systematic data and analysis of this problem all over the world. We have never before five years ago had a resolution to even acknowledge lgbt rights as human rights that was passed in 2011 there has been the second and now a report was issued in june of this year chair document the faith and the plights of the lgbt around the world this is getting into the dna of the United Nations but until today the Security Council had never approached the topic so it is a small but historic step and with that i will open for questions. Ambassador how will they address this issue especially in the middle east and a more formal way . Especially with the Security Council . To read today was an important step as an informal meeting but but in 70 years no such meeting had happened before and we heard most o
Convention with a discussion on palestine, one state versus two state. What is maybe in the best interest of the palestinians now and later, the Trump Administration in light of this administration. With that i want to turn it over to our moderator. Great, thank you so much. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming out. Im the director of opinion analysis. And ill be moderating todays panel. One state or two state solution, whats best for the palestinians. Thank you for everybody from the adc who helicopter for with the timely progress and well have an introduction and each panelist will speak, on a one state or two state solution. And then well open up the audience. A dominant paradigm for making peace in the middle east, increasingly challenged by activists who believe its inge practical given whats on the ground and undesirable. They are looking at arabs and jews, and including the palestinians of israel and refugees. Look the at apartheid of south africa, in the struggle for a
We are pleased to have with us Oona Hathaway and scott shapiro, the authors of the internationalists. A look at provocative history of the main who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history. Oona hathaway is a professor of International Law and counselor to the dean at the jail law school. She is professor of International Law in area studies at the Yale University mcmillan center. In 201415 she took leave to serve as special counsel to the general counsel for National Security law at the u. S. Department of defense where she was awarded the office of the secretary of defense award for excellence. Professor halfwit earned his ba at harvard in 1994 and her j. D. At Yale Law School. She served as a law clerk for Justice Sandra day oconnor and for d. C. Circuit judge patricia law. She has published more than 25 law review articles. Scott shapiro is the professor of law and professor of philosophy at Ya