Speakers have appeared before the club over the last century, and have established a very strong tradition of excellence. I would like to take a moment to recognize those of our 297 members as the Centennial Society attending today in the front of the room as their contributions continue to be the financial backbone for the club. They actually enable us to offer our wonderful diverse programming now and into the future. Wed also like to welcome students joining us today from Columbia Business School and Harvard Business school. In addition, we have attending members of the 2019 class of ecny fellows, a select cohort of next generation thought leaders sponsored by members of the club for our yearlong program. Welcome to all of you. [applause] it is both an honor and a privilege for me to welcome the 45th president of the United States, donald j. Trump. [applause] President Trump built on his success in private life when he entered into politics and public service. Hes a graduate of the
Of new york. Im honored to preside at todays event. Currently in our 112th year, the Economic Club of new york is the nations leading Nonpartisan Forum for discussions on economic, social, and political issues. More than 1,000 prominent guest speakers have appeared before the club over the last century, and have established a very strong tradition of excellence. I would like to take a moment to recognize those of our 297 members as the Centennial Society attending today in the front of the room as their contributions continue to be the financial backbone for the club. They actually enable us to offer our wonderful diverse programming now and into the future. Wed also like to welcome students joining us today from Columbia Business School and Harvard Business school. In addition, we have attending members of the 2019 class of ecny fellows, a select cohort of next generation thought leaders sponsored by members of the club for our yearlong program. Welcome to all of you. [applause] it is
Great establishment of scientists, every major Scientific Organization in the country, perhaps dr. Bodkin is right and they are all wrong, but i am not sure that would be the prudent course for our country. Thank you all very much. We are turned. Adjourned. E [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] next, remarks by securities and Exchange Mission chair Mary Jo White. After that Martin Omalley talking to democrats in iowa. 7 00 a. M. , your calls and comments on washington journal. , debbieakers Wasserman Schultz of florida. She talks politics in the middle of the primary season. She also talks about the new Republican House leader and looks ahead to the fall elections and campaign 2016. Here are some of her remarks. Host is there a democrat other than Hillary Clinton who could he and national standardbearer for the democrats at this point . Guest of course there is. Guest no one else can even get started. Guest we
Large Company Startup services who, wrote a letter to the fcc last month arguing that the commissions rules should protect users and Internet Companies on both fixed and mobile platforms against blocking, discrimination and pay prioritization and, mr. Chair, i ask for unanimous consent to submit this letter for the record. Without objection. So ordered. So, thats, an example of folks feeling like we have a competitive environment today where they have been able to thrive and innovate and wanted to make sure we continue to maintain that. So, with that, mr. Chair, i yield back. Thank you very much. Well now recognize mr. Smith. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this hearing. I think it is important that we examine the importance of the antitrust laws. They can play in the discussion of the internet and particularly Net Neutrality debate. My first question is for mr. Mcdowell. How would additional regulation impact small and midsized internet providers . There is evidence in
Good evening. It is a pleasure to be here with you with two extraordinary courageous women. We are going to tell you that they have seen with their own ass and have felt horrificses to a humanitarian crisis. Ladies, thank you for being with us today. Thank you to you both. Will have the president and ceo of International Rescue committee will talk about some of the dire circumstances that the 9 million refugees and the internally displaced people. First, we want to hear from two women who have experienced what happened in syria yesterday. Last august, your hometown was one of the places that was attacked with chemical weapons. Take us back to that day and what you saw and what you witnessed. My cousin and i were preparing and working with them. Internet that there was a emma attack. Then after an hour, we heard that a similar attack hit my town. We are hearing the missiles and the bombing, but we didnt know that this bombing this night is different from any other nights before. Its car