About the federal budget, the deficit and the debt. I am very pleased to introduce our panel. You know, some times its like bringing friends together this is one case like that. We have real friends today. So i wont belabor their introductions but this is dean of the kennedy school, professor of public policy. As all of you know past director of the cvo. We always find his views and positions extremely enlightning. It is wonderful to have doug with us and glenn who is dean of the sorry, dean and Russell Carlson professor and is the past chair of the cea under george w. Bush. Finally we have our moderator Michael Peterson who is ceo and president of the Peterson Foundation and it is longtime supporters. We are delighted to have you again here. Over do you. Thank you. Thank you. We have a great panel that will be focused on fiscal policy. As part of our roel we need to find common ground. For those with questions, fill them out and send them up and well save time at the end. I would like
Debate that. You know, weve had the for 52 Consecutive Years and this is going to be the 5rd consecutive 53rd Consecutive Year weve been able to pass it. But it seems each year its always hard to do. Because at the last minute, there are always other people that want to get things in the bill that were not there. But you have to keep in mind, and i want to say in defense to the bigfour approach to this, we came down we passed this bill. We passed it out of the Senate Armed Services committee on may the 23rd. And weve been wanting to get it on the floor since may the 23rd. Senator levin and i have come down countless times and begged our colleagues on the democrat side and the republican side to get their amendments down so we can consider their amendments. And we had a lot of amendments that did come down. And of the amendments that came down, im very proud to say that we incorporated almost all of those, 47 of those amendments are a part of this bill. So its not as if the amendments w
Thei own. What will the chairmano in response to that is that going to force him to move more quickly, or is it going to put him in a position where hel have to do some horse trading with Congressional Republicans. Thats not clear yet. Thats something well be watching early in the year. Host and youe written about this ho quickly do you expect a bill . Guest i think were looking at next month. Early in the year yes. Hos in january . Kate tam ril low, Net Neutrality. Guest were also talking about Net Neutrality against the backdrop of the Communications Update which is this big, multiyear that republicans in congss have undertaken. They kind of have that working as well. The rpublicans in the house have said they want to get pen to paper starting in january, so we could see some movement on that very soon, and thats a ol for the Congressional Republicans to kind of push back to thinkn any Net Neutrality rules they think are an overreach on wheelers part. Host how much groundwork has bee
20. You probably heard about that when president obama announced cases of executive acts that would not only expand the deferred action program, but also expand it to undocumented parents of children and or other measures less novel shall be discussed as part of this program. And surprisingly, this move has proven extremely controversial and political, leading to denouncements against congress and lawsuits challenging the legality of the acts, including one by nearly half of the state join in the litigation. So in this program we wanted to situate the conversation on immigration executive acts into a broader context and include other areas of law such as health, environment, gay rights, National Security where the president has also been accused of acting as an imperial president. What makes todays program particularly exciting, therefore, is that it is bring together scholars writing on issues of separation of powers federalism, Administrative Law and legislation, and writes rights ac
Of things, certainly a number of more proactive chinese foreignpolicy and the xi jinping claiming, of course that china is now going to have the brainpower the great power foreignpolicy with special characteristics. But the question remains, i think, as to whether putting the periphery at the top really means recognition of deterioration of chinese relations with the neighborhood therefore leading to an adjustment in chinese foreignpolicy going forward. If that is the case, then what is the adjustment . What we are seeing so far is chinas emphasis on economic integration and trying to give the neighbors economic incentives to connect them through the 21st Century Maritime silk road and the economic the traditional economic silk road, to try to find them bind them more to chinas own development, and, in turn, to assist chinas own development. This is not just about getting. Its about giving. This is what china means by a winwin approach. I think the jury is still out as to whether we ar