Environment. This is a little more than two hours. Thank you, kathy. Thank you all of you for joining us on an august when state for not being on recess. And instead coming to join us for what we think is a very timely event. I would also like to thank kathy barbara and the American University school of Public Administration for sponsoring the event. For those of you may not be familiar with the academy, we are a nonpartisan, nonprofit chartered organization. Charged with identifying emerging issues of governance to help federal, state, and local governments improve. The academys mission is to provide advice. Advice that is timely, actionable, and objective on Public Management issues. Sellers who are current and former cabinet officials, members of congress, governors, mayors, legislators, jurors, business executives, public managers, and scholars. They are elected fellows because contribution through called scholarship and government service. This year we are celebrating our 50th ann
Familiar with the academy, we are a nonpartisan, nonprofit congressionally chartered organization, charged with identifying emerging issues of governance to help state and local governments improve their performance. The academys mission is to provide trusted advice, advice it is timely, actionable, and objective on Public Management issues. The source of our expert ceases or membership who are current and former cabinet officials, members of congress, governors, mayors, legislators, jurists, business executives, public managers, and scholars. They are elected fellows because of the distinguished conservation to the field through scholarship, activism and government service. This year, we are celebrating a 50th anniversary. Since our establishment in 1967, the academy has responded to a multitude of risk a request from agencies across the government and has undertaken numerous studies on issues of interest to congress, administration and stakeholders in general. We are in the business
Change. There is a difference between being out of the seat and in the seat. Take care. [inaudible] like i said, we are about to see a collapse in syria, iraq is falling apart. That is where we need to focus our intelligence efforts. [inaudible] groundskeeper, i think, at the white house. Carson . What are you meeting about today . Hello, how are you . I am well. We had a very productive meeting. He has really cool stuff in his office. All of these athletes who have given him this memorabilia. I guess it takes a champion to know what champion. We got down to more Serious Business and we spent time talking about china. A rising adversary. We talked about hacking. We talked about the opportunity the president elect has to literally reset things, to reset the trajectory of this economy, to reset the role of government, to reset americas role in the world and how we are perceived in the world and i think it is why he is getting such fantastic people in his administration. The high quality
Change. There is a difference between being out of the seat and in the seat. Take care. [inaudible] like i said, we are about to see a collapse in syria, iraq is falling apart. That is where we need to focus our intelligence efforts. [inaudible] groundskeeper, i think, at the white house. Carson . What are you meeting about today . Hello, how are you . I am well. We had a very productive meeting. He has really cool stuff in his office. All of these athletes who have given him this memorabilia. I guess it takes a champion to know what champion. We got down to more Serious Business and we spent time talking about china. A rising adversary. We talked about hacking. We talked about the opportunity the president elect has to literally reset things, to reset the trajectory of this economy, to reset the role of government, to reset americas role in the world and how we are perceived in the world and i think it is why he is getting such fantastic people in his administration. The high quality
Ability to get tax reform done and health care reform. Lets turn to tax reform. And we will take you back live to the committee for Economic Development, their annual spring policy conference, and this discussion coming up on infrastructure. Live here on cspan. The next section focuses on and for structure policy. When you look back to the causes of the great economic boon between the 1980s in the financial crisis, there are a lot of parents. You cannot understate the amount of infrastructure built in the 1980s and the amount of capacity added and the contribution of that infrastructure to the boom. As somebody who ran companies during that time and relied heavily on the infrastructure, i the benefits well of getting ahead of our infrastructure needs. The challenge today is that so much of our infrastructure lies in less than good repair, which is a huge opportunity from a maintenance standpoint that also our capacity needs are quite diversity of those needs go well beyond surface tran