Of the relationship between president and cia director and how it is influenced by the president s needs and interests. One cia director george w. H. Bush later became president himself. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robins and its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple quick things first, one is, if you could please put away your cellphones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, wed appreciate it. If you wonder why theres such bright lights in here, youre all going to be on tv, cspan is taking, kidding, youre not going to be on tv, the speaker is going to be on cspan. When we get to the q a they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. If you have a question try to wait until they bring the mic to you, the speaker will repeat the question so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it, however they work it. Our speaker tonight is David Robarge who received phd in American History from columbia university. After teachi
So, this sounds really loud to me. Does it sound okay to people . Yeah . Hello everybody. Im maya mcginnis. I run the committee for responsible budget. Im pleased you joined us for our forum. Many of you probably know this, but the committee for responsible federal budget is a Bipartisan Organization focused on fiscal responsibility. And if you look at the world right now where the debt is at near record levels, never been this high relative to the economy since world war ii and the deficit is the largest its ever been when the economy is this strong its a really important issue to focus on right now. Im smiling so i dont cry. I was thinking i look really happy. Its a troubling time for fiscal policy. Theres no question about that. Let me just tell you quickly about two projects that we are doing before i kick off our really great panels and speakers for this afternoon. The first project were doing right now is something we do every year on Election Year called u. S. Budget watch. And
Schedule, but were going to not cut these guys short, so were going to move into fortifying our future, states becoming more resilient. All of our states, whether theyre located on the coast, in the noounz, in the midwest, or anywhere in between, have struggled to meet the challenges that come with the disasters that impact the nation and our states. And next well have an important discussion own how to meet those challenges and how we as governors can prepare our citizens for the resiliency challenges of the future. Well have governor mills of maine, Governor Newsom, and governor mills will lead the discussion with the governors. [ applause ] i thought they were going to put chairs up here. I guess well do it from the thing. Im not in charge of moving the seats. Thank you, Governor Hogan. Welcome to all of you to this discussion about fortifying our future. Let me start by talking about my own state. Im getting wroo ready. For the august meeting in portland maine. My state has 1. 3 Mi
Government is contemplating isnt going to just let facebook off the hook for policing free free speech its its going to possibly wipe out free on line speech entirely you see on wednesday this week u. S. Attorney william barr convened a workshop featuring many of the Tech Companies critics to explore potential changes to section 230 of the Communications Decency act which was passed back in 1996 and that is a long time critic of section 230. 00 attorney general barsa could instruct his Justice Department to explore ways to limit the provision which per tax on Line Companies from liability for User Generated Content meanwhile the kings of Silicon Valley are quickly realizing that all is now well with their worker bees as this week we also saw these circus storm the ramparts one that workers at the crowdfunding platform kickstarter made history on tuesday when they voted to unionize making them the 1st in the industry to do so. What a day what a week in Silicon Valley online free speech
Process. They spoke at an event hosted by the committee for a responsible federal budget. So, this sounds really loud to me. Does it sound okay to people . Yeah . Hello everybody. Im maya mcginnis. I run the committee for responsible budget. Im pleased you joined us for our forum. Many of you probably know this, but the committee for responsible federal budget is a Bipartisan Organization focused on fiscal responsibility. And if you look at the world right now where the debt is at near record levels, never been this high relative to the economy since world war ii and the deficit is the largest its ever been when the economy is this strong its a really important issue to focus on right now. Im smiling so i dont cry. I was thinking i look really happy. Its a troubling time for fiscal policy. Theres no question about that. Let me just tell you quickly about two projects that we are doing before i kick off our really great panels and speakers for this afternoon. The first project were doin