Business z to thrive need the ability to mauve capital to move capital and talent freely without hassle and across borders. As we see the increase in the nationalism around many fronts in the world, we see that at odds in the multinational businesses that become less capable of dealing with localized politics. This is creating conflicts certainly, between the business. Within the businesses. We are seeing as well a significant increase in the amount of the Gross Domestic Product globally that is produced in medium to high Political Risk environments around the world. So thats increased over the last decade of 15 of global gdp coming from medium to high Political Risk environments to 39 in the last year. And that means were trading a lot more with higher Political Risk environments around the world. The economic output of the world is going towards those environments. And if we look at the last year, we see the Political Risks increasing in a variety of ways. We see it in a series of co
Screeria nigeria. 114 congress. Later a look at president obamas use of executive orders and the impact on states. Wednesday the council on Foreign Relations hosted a discussion on global conflicts and instability. Scholars and former federal officials examined threats posed by the situations in the south china sea, the middle east, and the conflict between russia and ukraine. This is just over an hour. Welcome. Hello, everyone. Hi. My names jeanine davidson, thank you all for coming today for what promises to be a fascinating conversation i can tell just by the looks an your faces and also by the people that we have here today. This has become a bit of an annual event where we sort of take stock on the last year, and look forward to the new year thinking about all the crises in the world, and looking at the potential horrible things that can happen or not, and debate a little bit. And also kind of think about what it means for the United States and for the rest of the world, before we
What it called the outdated formula. The absence of section five protection now allows the states to pass discriminatory laws that disenfranchise africanamerican voters and other groups. Partisan redistricting scales have been acted with impunity. As a caucus will continue our fight to restore section five of the Voting Rights act. [applause] and we will evaluate whether american corporations will depend on the government contracts and tax preferences if they make a serious effort at diversity of executive suites and a workforce. We will look at corporations the fortune 500 corporations are investing in underserved communities and if they are failing we want to expose it we are ready for the fight in the future if it is a fight all fair minded americans and should promote we need to use political means policy and legal means to reduce Racial Disparity to closer to the day when every american receives and realizes the american dream. So in closing i issue a call to action for what i cal
Bill aimed at encouraging the development of energyefficient technologies for use in both commercial and residential buildings. Senate majority leader harry reid expressed dismay that efforts had failed to yield an overall agreement on amendments to move the bill forward, but he says hes hopeful members can regroup this week to advance the measure. Today theyll also debate and vote on two judicial nominations to the u. S. Court of federal claims. Over in the house, theres a brief pro forma session at 2 eastern, no legislative business expected. A comprehensive Forest Management bill that would direct the Agricultural Department to establish Timber Harvesting zones, also to resize and renew nutrition assistance programs that were not included in the farm bill. Follow the house live on cspan and the senate on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, it was in 2010 that the federal Communications