Use by executive land holding agencies. In your opinion do you believe that gsa has done everything in its power to give life to the directives embodied in section 6409 which you referenced in your testimony of middle class tax relief act . Have they done everything they can . Mr. Chairman, i do not believe they have. As a matter of fact, im a former administrator myself of the federal agency and if i had implemented something too poorly that congress instructed me to do id be embarrassed. Theres an executive order by the president of the United States correcting gsa to move faster to get these contracts together and to date nothing has been done. Three years after Congress Enact this legislation, progress has been slow gsa hasnt been proactive. Proactive. I think our members are having to negotiate for each and every site individually just as they have in the past. Gsa has not implemented the intent of congress and we cant wait three more years for whats needed i think today. Theres a
Or can we fix it . And if so how in particular . Youre about to hear how from our expert panel. Let me introduce them in the order in which theyll speak, as we proceed through the panel well be working our way through the various titles of dodd frank frank. First will be my colleague peter wallacen. He co directs aeis program on financial studies, was co chair of the pew Financial Task force and served on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission where he wrote a very enlightening and highly controversial dissent. Previously peter was White House Council to president reagan. General council of the treasury department. Financial crisis was spawned by the financial crisis spawned dodd frank, do you understand what spawned the financial crisis . Buy peters book hidden in plain sight in case you havent yet. Our second speaker senior director of Global Government Affairs strategy and Public Policy of bloomberg, where he covers policy issues in europe, asia and the u. S. Equity, fixed income,
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So were talking about a pretty narrow universe to begin with. Second, as a matter of principle, we welcome investment. This is good for our companies, its good for all sorts of industries, and its something that as a general proposition we want to encourage. But its vitally important that when it comes to national security, we remain vigilant. And thats what cfius is designed to do. Now, i think youre right to raise the question about whether in the event of a bilateral investment treaty the investment flow goes up significantly, is that going to put strain, further strain on the process, and do we need to look at that . Thats something id like to come back to you on on if i can because its a great question that i need to think through a little more. Great. I would welcome that and happy to discuss with you too. Thank you, madam chairman. Thank you, mr. Deutsche. Mr. Poe of texas. Thank you, madam chair. Thank you, sir, for being here. I have one a couple observations, and i want to sp
So you need to do both but it would be a big mistake not to also go to the biggest capital but commands the most respect. I think the capitals are of importance right now i think the Commission Wants to get this agreement when they get bogged down to solve the problems and that is how it works but being a leader since the very beginning, that is the Angela Merkel project to have 40 percent of gdp from trade. But the thing i would caution it is very hard for american institutions to argue in berlin because those arguments that are made are very much american in the nsa with the increase of the migration a rack to dig up of remarks about the iraq war and to we need to be careful of american institutions to go over a and a lobby this is what they said to look to the European Companies to take on a major role in the european debate to. But in each of those is a little bit different. That reminds me with the debate of trade promotion and authority as a great as activist got together as a ho