Working families in the commonwealth and around this country. He has been working diligently on the cares act that was recently passed. He is going to talk to us about that today. And we cant wait to hear about it. Were so thrilled also to have Stephanie Murray here with us today. Readl open our inbox and stephanie on politico playbook first thing every morning. Stephanie, thank you for being here. Aboutd go on and on chairman neil and im not going to because i want to kick it over now to hear from him and hear from stephanie and thank you all for joining us today via zoom. Stephanie good afternoon. Thank you so much to the Kennedy Institute and for everyone who is joining us this afternoon. In q2 congressman neal for being so generous with your time. My name is Stephanie Murray. Im the author of the political massachusetts playbook. It is my pleasure to be here, especially to kick off this new version of the institute form as we get used to our live online. Im glad to be here with you
White house news. Hillary vaughn on capitol hill. We start with you, hillary. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi says she basically had to do jujitsu to shape the senate bill into something her members could stomach. She spent the past few days while the bill was delayed in the senate pushing to make the focus workers first instead of corporations first but House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy is criticizing pelosi for this delay saying while this bill was held up in the senate for several days while they were back channeling to pelosi, trying to work out a deal with the white house, several, hundreds of people around the country were wondering when they would get muchneeded relief and some of the relief is in the form of cash paid directly to americans who need it most. Anyone making under 75,000 get as onetime payment of 1200. For couples making less than one 50,000, they get 2400 in a payment. Americans waiting for money still have to wait on the house to pass this bill. One way or
Good afternoon. I dont want to interrupt your lunch so feel free to keep eating, but as promised we are going to have a really good, important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning and build by thinking a little bit about how do we set a strategic frame to support Good Governance. Think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states. Governing institutions need to become more accountable. We have to work on ways to build inclusiveness. Tackle the problem of marginalization and exclusion. Figure out how to empower youth. To take leadership roles. The importance of enabling Civil Society to be an important part of cementing a stronger state society relationship. These are all dimensions of governance in one way or another. And this is one of the central challenges of transforming fragile states to be more resilient. How do we do that from the perspective of the United Stat
A gentleman for whom i have tremendous respect in the field of military history more widely. We share a great interest in the First World War and have both done work in that era. His work is not at all limited can see war i as you today, but to world war ii and other conflicts in American Military history. The militarynth museum and library a joint awarded him the Military Museum and Library Literature award for Lifetime Achievement in military writing. I cannot think of anybody who deserves it more. [applause] thanks very much, ed. Are you ready to take to the air . Are you tired of being on the ground . Have you had enough no . You are about to get more but from above. Look above you. T51, but it is in the insignia and colors of the 15th air force, not the eighth. There is a b17 somewhere up there. I told the panel that if i got high enough on what they discussed, i would fly the damn thing. Be ready for a tremendous performance. It could get very physical, not just scholarly. But i
Madeleine albright and the former u. S. Ambassador to myanmar talked about helping governments in fragile states. The good afternoon. I dont want to interrupt your lunch, so feel free to keep eating but as promised, we are going to have a really goo good important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning. And bill, by thinking a little bit about how we set a strategic frame this of Good Governance, think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states, governing institutions needed to become more accountable. We have to work on ways to build inclusiveness, tackle the problem of marginalization and exclusion, figure out how to empower the youth to take leadership roles. The importance of enabling Civil Society to be an important part of cementing a stronger state of society relationship, these are all dimensions of governance in one way or another and this is one of the centr