Good morning, everybody. [inaudible] its great to have you all here. My name is kevin and im delighted to be with you today as your host for this summer. The iif has put together a fantastic program for you focusing on prospects under the new administration for financial services, regulatory reform, Infrastructure Investments, energy policies, and much more. We are honored to have so many highlevel speakers who have given up their valuable time to offer their perspectives today. The iif is delighted to organize this meeting partnership with we all look forward to hearing from the president and ceo Mark Weinberger later today. If you are unable to stay for particular session today, everything will be available on the iif website after work. They keep it as a great job making sure all that content is uploaded and, therefore, your disposal when you need it. Most importantly for all of us who are wired in today, the network for the wifi here is Ronald Reagan building. Log in the 2017 iif p
[inaudible conversations] you can watch this again anytime on the website, cspan. Org. And now we want to introduce you to the Lieutenant Colonel director of the marine band. What is your job, Lieutenant Colonel . Im the 28th director of the marine band and my job is to lead the band and performances and im the Commanding Officer of this unit as well. And how big is the unit lacks we have 154 dedicated members and its designed to cover multiple commitments at the same time and to cover a wide span of different types of performances that we are required to do for the white house and across the capital region. In a practicin the practice l we saw about 50 members and the band is about 154 mark 154 . That includes the musicians and a Chamber Orchestra and a member of physicians that double one jazz instruments that may be required at any time and professional support staff that support the operations throughout the year. When you perform at the white house or on the south lawn or a corres
Called home we are charting and new half one built on collaboration and respect and one that places our state and people first. I am proud of the work we have done, the progress we have made, and im confident we can continue to move West Virginia forward together. Together. Tonight we are more than just immigrants and republicans. We we are and will forever be West Virginians. Thank you. God bless you. God bless your families. God bless the state that we call home. Thank you. [applause] tonight on t1, speeches from some of the nations governors starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern georgia governor with his state of the state address. Address. Then the inaugurations of two new governors. After that we will here from new mexico governor. Providing live coverage of the u. S. Senate floor proceedings and key Public Policy events and every weekend book tv now for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Authors. Created by the cable tv industry and brought to
Our recovery still has a way to go. Too many middleclass americans hounded by decades of flat wages are still struggling to make progress. And i want everybody to understand my bottom line for this congress. When working families see bigger paychecks, americas economic recovery is going to go from a block to a run. I spend time working with businesses and my state about the challenges they face. Its pretty clear that there are a lot of oregonians and americans waiting for the economic recovery to kick in for them. For the middle class moving the recovery from walk to run comes down to technology jobs, tax reform, trading done right, transportation and temper. My guess is probably every senator on the committee on both sides of the i o could come up with their own list and there is no question in my mind there would be a lot of overlap. There are a lot of lessons to be learned is that policymakers work to strengthen the foundation of the american economy. 70 years ago after winning worl
Whiteman. Gernot coleads the office of Economic Policy and analysis. A professor at Columbia University and Research Associate at Harvard Kennedy school. Martin is a professor of economics at Harvard University and has been an elected fellow of the eeconomics society and American Academy of arts and sciences. The author of two books and his works have been published. Climb shock is refleshing. It starts witha pop quiz, reveals a possible new James Bond Film and gives you the solution on page 23. However the books true value lies in the authors able to present a complex topic in player simple term, they challenge assumeses and dont shy away from a clear call for action of we are very delighted to be hosting them tonight. Joan me in welcoming Gernot Wagner and martin whiteman. [applause] thank you everybody for coming. Now, most every book you imagine is about what we know. This is about what we dont. And its not a notebook behind us. It is a proper book. But its basically bat topic wher