Epa administrator scott pruitt talks about the trump administrations environmental policy agent. Agenda. I am pleased to welcome to our stage scott pruitt. [ applause ] i am routinely assured by my friends on the left that he means to destroy the epa. I wish that were true, but he is not going to destroy it. A quick question for uyou. So your home state of oklahoma and my home state of texas, pennsylvania where i lived for a while, all these states do a pretty good job of regulating the gas and oil on their own. I look to these things and think to myself what is the point of the epa. Im sure there is one. Tell us what it is . So kevin and i had a little conversation as were getting ready to come on stage from texas, oklahoma. We had this little day in october where were not friends. But the only state we ever tried to give back to the indians. Well, maybe a discussion for another day. But as far as the epa is concerned, there is an Important Role for the agency there are air quality. W
Epa administrator scott pruitt talks about the trump administrations environmental policy agent. Agenda. I am pleased to welcome to our stage scott pruitt. [ applause ] i am routinely assured by my friends on the left that he means to destroy the epa. I wish that were true, but he is not going to destroy it. A quick question for uyou. So your home state of oklahoma and my home state of texas, pennsylvania where i lived for a while, all these states do a pretty good job of regulating the gas and oil on their own. I look to these things and think to myself what is the point of the epa. Im sure there is one. Tell us what it is . So kevin and i had a little conversation as were getting ready to come on stage from texas, oklahoma. We had this little day in october where were not friends. But the only state we ever tried to give back to the indians. Well, maybe a discussion for another day. But as far as the epa is concerned, there is an Important Role for the agency there are air quality. W
Here today, its not a show of defines. Its a show of respect for the dead for the injured. Wasnt man cannot shut down a city and one man cannot let down democracy. We must not react with unworthy responses. I think what is absolutely appropriate is the response that the house has shown today, its shown gratitude for the police and emergency services. It has shown respect on concerns of those who have been victims of the terrible attacks that took place but also it has shown normality and that is whats important as we define the terrorists and work to defeat. Ligel evans. Mr. Speaker, i thank the Prime Minister for her statement. I have seen the police play many roles around the palace of westminster, one is to give advice to members of the public of where to go, none of us could have passed carriage gates without having taking photos with the police. Its one of the things that they do. One of the things they do is to protect our democracy which we saw yesterday with brutal consequences
Cybersecurity and campaigns. Host and now on the communicators, we want to introduce you to matt lira. What do you do for a living . Guest i am a Senior Adviser to the House Majority leader, ken mccarthy, which is a fancy way of saying i help em him with communication and trying to modernize the federal government. Host and whats your background for that position . Guest so my career has been at the crosssection of the sort of tech and the private sector, capitol hill but particularly in leadership, or leadership offices and in the political space. So i like to say theres this venn diagram of winning campaigns, trying to, you know, improve government and getting some tech jobs every now and again. Thats how i landed where im at. Host so whats your training . Guest well, i was i trained in computer science, kind of old school coding. I was actually i dont want to be too in the weeds, but i was pretty good at action script which is a totally defunct language now. [laughter] and also in d
System. [inaudible conversation] good afternoon ladies and german. For those of you who are just tuning in in our Television Audience and our public Radio Audience and the internet, welcome to the National Press club worsens 1908 we have been the embodiment of the constitution. Before we get started i want to remind our guests in the audience, if you have a phone, please put it on vibrate because we know you want to tweet. We want you to follow the action, and so on twitter you can follow us at rest club d. C. Using and pc live. I want to introduce the head table. As i introduce each of you, please stand and i will briefly, as your name is announced, it will be from my left and youre right. Senior reporter at med tech insight and the treasurer of the National Press club. Michelle, desk editor at the Associated Press and the membership secretary of the National Press club. Sally sues men, executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs at pfizer. Donna, breaking news editor at usa today a