A quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in the middle of the 20th century. When you look for a house, what are you looking for . What do you see . People who lived in square fine ample houses. The ferocious slums. Many still stand, many torn down, rebuilding among the people and neighbors. A way being made for the projects. Signs of change in all of the cities. And still, the dark red blindness of walls. The cities reach out. The ghettos burst out after a long while. Every kind. Borders into the sunny pushing out into the new country waiting. Some of us still live in uniformity. But the sifting has begun. When you look further, when you look for a house, you see the citys reach. What are you looking for . A place to live . Your warmth, your love, your work, your rest from work, your quiet, the sounds you like, your privacy, your friends, a good place for children. A place to grow in. Easy to keep clean. A place that we can afford. The right place for us. And even from the car we try to
Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he zeem deems fit and this staff is, of course, a political appointee and has led the office since early in 2019. Let m
Ukraine and georgia as member countries. Representatives of nato, ukraine, and georgia talk about the process of expanding nato membership and russias opposition to adding the two countries. The German Marshall Fund hosted this hour and ten minute event. And im very pleased that today we have the pleasure to welcome our panelists and our viewers on both sides of the atlantic, so good evening, europe. Good morning, america. And for my part, greetings from brussels. The topic of today, ukraine, georgia relations with nato is something i would say is almost part of the dna of the German Marshall Funds. Gmf has been working many years on ukraine and georgia related issues. We do so through our black sea trust fund that supports a new society in black sea countries but also by address so i also really want to thank our partners in this event for all the support they provide. I think we have a terrific lineup of speakers ready to contribute tonight. So today we want to dig a little bit more
[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, 19, ngton, d. C. , november 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limi
This is pennsylvania. A new suburb and community of 60,000 people mid way between philadelphia and trenton, new jersey. With a giant shobing center, winding lanes, it is typical of communities all over america where families are pursuing the American Dream to fir their children a better chance at life. Theyre people of modest means. A large proportion are veterans. There are a few agencies and while many have had social churches, they have not adequately served the community. Most are proud and happy in their new environment. For many it is a new house of their own and it is a major financial investment. Social life is mainly confined to visits with the neighbors. Occasionally there are communitywide residents. Levittown is built by one man for whom it is name. Like Many Developers he set the initial policy. When the houses were should, he naturally waited true its on slender resources. In 1957 they attracted internation N International attention. A man and his family moved into a hous