Vote block of voters out there, 100 million voters are those who do not go to the polls thati cannot say enough the balance of power in the United States rests in those voters. Nonvoters span every demographic, every racial demographic, age, education. Have iwe are going to hope a very enlightening Panel Discussion discussing with Party Leaders themselves how they plan to appeal to this group and get some of these people to go to the polls. We will also discuss the interesting results of the night study that is being released today. We have all been anticipating for a long time. I want to encourage you all as you follow our discussion to join the conversation on social media. Political elections. Heres a quick video from our sponsor. Theres a crisis facing our democracy. Who has the power to solve it . Is it americas voters, or perhaps its americas nonvoters . In 2016, we witnessed one of our countrys most contentious president ial elections. Donald trump won the presidency , and Hilla
Policy conference. I am the director of the i amrch center and delighted to introduce the chairman and vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisors. In preparing for this session, i have a foundational commonality. He is originally from sweden. , am originally from minnesota the land of american swedes. Close enough. Currently on leave from the university of chicago, where he is a professor of public directs thees and program on Foundational Research and Health Care Markets and policies within the Health Economic initiatives. Severald in publicsector positions, including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of the food and Drug Administration and as the senior Economic Advisor to the head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as the Health Care Advisor for senator john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joining us today. Start, it says on wikipedia that the chairman writes all 300 pages. If you would, please take
In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t
Are working very hard to rally the base. Theyre also trying to win over swing voters, but i think we all know especially we will see today that by far the largest bloc of voters out there come when hundred million voters voting ages of those who dont go to the polls. I cant say enough that the balance of power in the United States rests in those voters. These nonvoters span every demographic, and the racial demographic, age demographic, education demographic. Today were going to have i hope very enlightening Panel Discussion discussing with Party Leaders themselves how the plan to appeal to this group and get some of these people to come to the polls. Were also going to discuss the very interesting results of this night study that is finally being released today, and weve all been anticipating for a long time. I want to encourage you all as you follow our discussion to also join the conversation on social media, hashtag politico elections. And to begin the sponsored segment heres a qui
Order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Id like to welcome back chairman powell. As i discussed earlier, and at our last hearing with you, i remain very concerned about the president s efforts to interfere with the feds independent Monetary Policy. A recent news story noted that trump has tweeted over 100 times about the fed since your nomination. Many of those tweets appear to be attempting to exercise pressure on the fed. Chairman powell, you and the fed board of governors must not be swayed by these aggressive tactics in upholding the feds independence you should be mindful of public perception. Of course, trump continues to try to claim credit for Economic Growth that was put in motion by the policies of president obama Congressional Democrats and the Federal Reserve, irresponsible tr