Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming. My name is ben harris, and as of this very morning, i am the Vice President and director for economic studies of the Brookings Institution. It is a true privilege and honor to have the opportunity to again be joined at this famed institution. There are many reasons why i found a return to brookings appealing, but a major motivation is events like the ones we are hosting today. Fdic chair marty gruenberg, who will be introduced by aaron klein and moments, was one of the key officials to help mitigate the fallouts if the Silicon Valley bank and Signature Bank failures early this year. We are very lucky to happen with us today. I suspect that this afternoons event must feel like a bit of a victory lap to the fdic chair given in 2019 he sadness very real and ward in great detail about the risk of failure by a large Regional Bank. His remarks, which are required reading for anyone trying to understand the issue, he warned of the risks posed by
[background noises] think you guys so much. Thank you for being here. Im Lisa Freedman report on the some reporter for the New York Times and im very gratefulul to have 2dollar pans beginning with this one that is really going to drill down into a lot of the things that are covered. First let me introduce our panel all the way to my far right that director at the center and regulation markets at the Brookings Institution. The bernard l. Schwartz chair of policy development and the fellow in economic studies at berkeley and the fellow for the initiative for disabled energy policy. Adie tamer in the center is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and an expert on infrastructure policy and urban economics. With a particular focus on transportation and digital technology. He hedine is working to better understand infrastructure policies from theic federal levl and how they Impact Economic Development social prosperity and and directly to my left Glenn Rudebusch a senior nonresident senior fel
Better at the federal level think you all very much for your time. Thank you secretary nielsen for being here. I hope you all have a chance to learn something. And that is what we want. We want to learn from each other. And strengthen these partnerships and go even stronger. I want to thank my chief of staff. I dont know if shes here. She is primarily responsible for bringing this event together. And thank you to all of you who flew in to speak and be here with that i think we will wrap it up and we will exit out the back. If you exit the great tall go down the spiral staircase. If you continue straight down it will put you out on constitution avenue between ninth and tenth. You can bad out there. And the guards will let you out. Thank you all for your time. Thank you for your [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Sunday night on afterwards former speech writer for george w. Bush and atlantic columnist. With his book trump accuracy. He is interviewed by the Washington Po
8. 95, plusts shipping and handling. To get your copy, go to cspan. Org. Now, a look at the Trump Administrations aorta is for cutting back on regulations. You will hear from the head of the White House Office of information and regulatory affairs. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to brookings. I am be Vice President and director of economic studies here at brookings. I also direct the center on regulation of markets, which is hosting this event today. I am delighted to welcome naomi to speak here today. She is the administrator of the office of administration and regulatory affairs. Her appearance today is reminding me of one of the first events i ever did here at brookings. It was probably eight years ago. Nervous, so i bit was Walking Around outside, and getting warmed up. There was a group of protesters out front, one of whom was costng an oscar the grouch oscar the grouch costume with the trashcan, a fake sign in front of him, they were singing
Agreement. Global terror threats, and a proposal for a joint European Union defense force. This is one hour. Good morning. Welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. My name is heather comley, i am Senior Vice President here at csis with the privilege of leading our europe research. We are absolutely delighted to be able to welcome her excellency, minister for the armed forces of france. She accepted her responsibilities on june 21 of this year so four months into the job, and as she arrived here in washington, france has produced its Strategic Review of defense and National Security, a document that i certainly encourage all to read because as one of americas closest military security and Foreign Policy partners, this document articulates some of the great challenges of our time and the french priorities and how to focus on those. Before i welcome the minister to the podium, the minister has had such a distinguished career in public service, serving as a senior bud