Foreignpolicy and how it changed the world. Which identified for overarching trends in foreignpolicy. The hamiltonian, jeffersonian and jacksonian, this way of thinking about foreignpolicy remains a touchstone for how we think about foreignpolicy today. He will talk about president s today, but focus on a different group. Franklin roosevelt, Harry S Truman and ronald reagan. He will provide a lot of insight into our current situation. After he speaks, we will take questions from the audience and questions on our twitter site. The twitter handle is it rolls off the tongue. The program for military and diplomatic history. Please join me in welcoming professor Walter Russell mead. [applause] prof. Mead thank you for that introduction and the opportunity to speak today. I want to congratulate you and csis for taking history seriously. I think this may be one of the critical gaps in american foreignpolicy. The failure of colleges and universities to put value on this knowledge, certainly in
Norquist, American Enterprise Institute Fellow alex brill, and Cato Institute tax policies studies reported Chris Edwards. This is an hour. All righty. I think were going get started here. I want to welcome you all today. Im peter russo, the director of Congressional Affairs at the Cato Institute. And i want to thank you all for coming today. This is a capitol Hill Briefing entitled the home stretch for a major tax reform. And of course we crossed a big hurdle today in the house as they agreed to the Senate Budget proposal which of course paves the way for a reconciliation derived tax reform package. This spring the Cato Institute released the eighth cato handbo. And our recommendations for tax reform begin on page 45 of that publication. And further there are four other chapters that deal exclusively with fiscal policy. If you would like more copies, please contact me after the program. Meanwhile fully searchable pdfs are available at cato. Org. With that i would like to introduce rya
Talks about the agenda and related issues. He is recently back from puerto rico where heat who word damage to pharmaceutical companies. He will also assess the impact the hurricane had on the u. S. Drug supply. Carly mcwilliams, Senior Advisor to the fda commissioner, a washington correspondent with usa today, jennifer rodriguez, assistant commissioner for media at the usda, dena fine, medicine and Health Editor for scientific america, kathleen quinn, Senior Advisor to the fda commissioner. Here we have lisa matthews, Vice President of hager sharp and coleader of the National Press club Headliners Team. Skipping over our guest for a moment, we have bill pierce. doctor charles snyderman, health and science correspondent for audio video news. Thank you for joining us. [applause] id also like to take one moment to acknowledge additional members of the Headliners Team responsible for organizing todays luncheon. Betsy fisher martin, laurie, heather and press club staff liaison, lindsay. Tha
A quick correction, former Us Ambassador Roy Stapleton will be talking about the party China Congress at 230 eastern, live online at cspan. Org. You can listen with the free cspan radio app. Yesterday the defense of cultivating a recent report about two Navy Ship Collisions in june the uss fitzgerald collided philippine flag container ship off the country of japan leaving seven sailors dead. Over two months later the uss john mccain clapped into a iberian ship near singapore and left ten sailors dead. Here is a look. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i will start with an opening statement. I want to thank you first for the opportunity to be here today and review of the recent incidences involving forces in the western pacific. A copy of the review that examines the systemic issue surrounding these incidences and review the corrective action. Before i begin i must say that throughout this investigative process our first and last thoughts have been with our fallen sailors and their f