Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. Before i began, i will thank the witnesses for accommodating the scheduled change today. We left the senate floor where senator Johnny Isaacson gave his Farewell Speech and may friend and colleague Ranking Member coons is down there now bidding him farewell on the speech. He and senator isaacson worked a long time together. Its fitting senator is there because in many respects he embodies a lot of the same attributes as senator isaacson in terms of working together on this committee. When he comes in he will interject but in the meantime we will get to your opening statements. We are here to talk about the issue of fraudulent trade marks. As everyone knows trade marks are the back bone of many businesses options. Unfortunately, the United States has seen a surge in fraudulent trademark applications. According to the wall street journal, from 2013 to 2017, the United States patent and Trademark Office testing a surgeon trademark applicati
Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. Before i began, i will thank the witnesses for accommodating the scheduled change today. We left the senate floor where senator Johnny Isaacson gave his Farewell Speech and may friend and colleague Ranking Member coons is down there now bidding him farewell on the speech. He and senator isaacson worked a long time together. Its fitting senator is there because in many respects he embodies a lot of the same attributes as senator isaacson in terms of working together on this committee. When he comes in he will interject but in the meantime we will get to your opening statements. We are here to talk about the issue of fraudulent trade marks. As everyone knows trade marks are the back bone of many businesses options. Unfortunately, the United States has seen a surge in fraudulent trademark applications. According to the wall street journal, from 2013 to 2017, the United States patent and Trademark Office testing a surgeon trademark applicati
Let me begin with the outlet section on this sunday. The p spiral ron turn saying donald trump is what Alexander Hamilton had in mind when he pushed for impeachment powers by congress. A fair statement. The most important function for impeachment is as a check by the legislature, it goes by the public in general, check by the legislature against executive overreach. And the concern by the framers that we would have a president so far exceed his authority and be so essentially inappropriate at the job that even the remedy of election would not be sufficient. We need to remove him sometime between the four years between elections. Host the debate in the 1860s with Andrew Johnson and 1974 with Richard Nixon and in the 1990s with bill clinton gets to the core of the u. S. Constitution. Following, the conviction of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. It is still vague today, isnt it . Or is it . Guest i wouldnt call it vague. The standard is treason, bribery or other high crim
Mind when he pushed for impeachment powers for congress. Guest i think that is a fair statement. Host why . Guest the most important is aion for impeachment check by legislature against aecutive overreach and concern by the framers that we would have a president who would authority andhis be so essentially inappropriate at the job that even the remedy of election would not be sufficient. We need to remove him sometime between the four years between elections. Host the debate in the 1860s with Andrew Johnson and 1974 with Richard Nixon and in the 1990s with bill clinton kids to conviction of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. It is still vague today, isnt it . Guest i wouldnt call it vague. Treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Only crimethe defined in the constitution, essentially defined as giving aid and comfort to an enemy in the time of war. That is not what we are talking about. Is easily defined. It was well known then and now. The phrase you are
During a speech at the Brookings Institution in washington, d. C. After he spoke, china policy experts talked about chinas Regional Power. And president xi jing pings leadership. Good morning. My name is bruce jones. Im the Vice President and the director for Foreign Policy here at brookings. It is my pleasure to welcome you here. I see lots of old friends in the audience and several new ones. Its a pleasure to invite you to our event. Im delighted to welcome randy back to brookings. Weve been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of our policy research. And while hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randal schreiber was appointed on jan 8th, 2018, prove lees having served for east asian and Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered china, taiwan, hong kong and aus tailia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of also served as an active duty Nav