Ussr to rush at the beginning. No one knows. There is a lot of love and hate. Cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u. S. Brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u. S. Companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and thats because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. We saw what no one expected with fidel. Most people, most of the modeling done in the u. S. Government was fidels speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they dont know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. I would say dont expect raul dies and its a switch. Its going to be more of a wave. Thank you. Bill lane. Good morning. Bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a Great Program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from the big anniversary. Some o
U. S. Cuba relations and wonder how much of the ideas heard the word thought id never thought it would be a good place to be. [laughter] but were glad you are here. But it is consistent with the other cuba related events but over the years cuba has captures the imagination i remember back when we were trying to get support for the west colombia Free Trade Agreement that enjoys a lot of support from clocks on this panel with columbia represented the generating interest now in that was limited compared to cuba which seems to capture the imagination and. Is not on the politics of the u. S. Cuba relations we dont have time to go through the long history but it is an emotional issue. There are families to have the property confiscated whose families were attended and have strong views with the current government in cuba but today we will focus on the president s announcement and what the perspectives are from the legal and Business Community i want to mention in that category of great timin
To you and are of practical importance. If youre in this area or youre getting into this area. Basically, i want to cover not each to the same extent, but five different areas. The lobbying disclosure act, you already have some familiarity with with the previous presentations and particularly professor therbers presentation now. The registration act. The ethics rules, i know you touched on to some extent in the prior session. Revolving door, again, professor therber talked about some of the reforms its made in the 2007 law, but well get into the substance. And then just quickly some of the selfimposed or voluntarily implemented restrictions that the Obama Administration placed relating to lobbyists. So in terms of understanding how the lobbying disclosure act works, its a little bit weird because the registration is done by an organization or by a firm a lobbying firm or law firm, but its triggered in the first instance by an activity by an individual employee of either an organization
Hypothesized a legacy project it. But i think were getting pushed off into side panels about lifting the embargo on capitol hill right now. Help me. Im an optimist. And i believe optimism keeps us going on the right path. Why wont a bill come out of committee. Leave it to the room to w judge whether a bill is going to come out of a republican controlled senate. Let me follow up on that. I mean my. Yq reading of the tea leaves is, as your conclusion, that congress is two views, some strongly in favor of lifting some strongly opposed toq2n the president , the steps hes already taken. And, if you had to bet, i think you would bet where youve placed your money, which is unlikely that there will be legislative action on this to either roll back what the president is doing or to advance policy further. My question to you is, in your initial remarks, you suggested that as a legal matter, the president has full, legal discretion toc to take very expansive steps. My question is do you believe t
For authorization of military force against isis. It also comes as the german chancellor heads to washington. She will meet with the president tomorrow. It is sunday, february 8. We will get your questions and comments on authorization of military force. I our lines are open. Guest 202 7488001 four republicans. 202 7488000 four democrats. 202 7458002 for independents. And outlined for military or retired, 202 7480003. You can also send us an email or tweet. First, we want to talk about our fight against isis in iraq and syria. And the authorization of the use of force. By way of background, congress did give president that authority. It was passed on september 14, 2001 and signed by president george bush on september 18 2001. Just one week after the terrorist attacks on the 20 hours in new york. That authorization grants the President Authority to use all necessary and appropriate force against those who plan on planned, authorized, and committed the september 11 attacks. Members of co