[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to politics and prose on this balmy spring avenue afternoon. Forget started if you please sign in you shall have my eternal gratitude and let you know this evening we are recorded and we want to make sure that your questions are recorded as well for posterity. You will see to the side of me theres a microphone so when we have our questionandanswer session tonight, they could we speak directly into the microphone to ask your question i would appreciate. Finally once the event is over i wish if please do us a favor of folding your chairs up and putting them up and once again youll have my eternal gratitude. Charles wheelan is the reason why so many of you are volunteering your afternoon to listen about foreign policy. The best math teacher you never had and formerly a correspondent for the economist mr. Wheeler went on to write statistics and was widely praised for ruthlessly stripping away the jargon
And the inspired action you took to come to the aid of the veteran in crisis. Thank you all for the work that you do day in and day out on behalf of those who have served. A few weeks ago i had the honor of meeting with robert mcdonald, the secretary of the va. Secretary mcdonald is a man who has time and again answered the call of duty to his and our nation. He graduated from the United States military academy at west point in the top 2 of his class in 1975. An army veteran. Mr. Mcdonald served with the 82nd airborne division, completed jungle, arctic, desert warfare training, earned the ranger tab, that expert infantry men badge. Senior parachutist wing. Upon leaving military service, captain mcdonald was awarded the Meritorious Service medal. But mr. Mcdonalds expertise as a soldier is equal by his business beingaccumen. He earned a degree from the university of utah and has a career in the private sector. Before joining the va, chairman mcdonald was chairman, president and chief ex
Assessment of how food affects the body and induce us to have high glucose levels and then to crash and effect your insulin in the Major Development of the type ii diabetes in the country and if we had this i think would be a useful label for diabetics as well as those of us that are not diabetic but those that want to gain a better way to avoid for the long term to avoid type ii diabetes to have a high glycemic index fingers that have a lower glycemic index. That would be one way of getting to the sugar element without an assault and provide information to regular folks like us as well as the millions and millions of people that have type ii diabetes. Next question. Im going to shorten it. Its basically about the extent possible that all the regulations we have been talking about increased the cost. So the question is that a concern and we increase the cost perhaps with less regulation. It is true that the regulations can cost money and i think we got pretty good at trying to estimate
Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin has a new title speaker of the house. In assuming the position held by john boehner for four and a half turbulent years. Speaker ryan acknowledges the challenges he faces. He promised today to fix a house of representatives he calls broken. Brian mooar has the story from washington. The speaker of the house, congressman an honorable paul ryan. On capitol hill. A changing of the guard paul ryan took the gavel as the new speaker of the house of representatives. Its a house divided with republican factions battling each other even as they fight democrats. Wisconsin 18 26lets be frank the house is broken. Were not solving problems, were adding to them. Those problems were the downfall of outgoing Speaker John Boehner. Who was unable to break the legislative gridlock that had lawmakers lurching from one political showdown to the next. I leave with no regrets or burdens. If anything, i leave as i started just a regular guy humbled by the chance to do a big
Governor Christine Todd whitman under governors bush. Rightly isle william an epa administrator under the president george h. W. Bush and worked to amend the clean air. Ct to control acid rain dr. Daniel botkin. The honorable louvre strange Luther Strange is alabamas attorney general. I welcome a colleague here. And dr. Joseph mason is a junior louisiana bancorps association in doubt professor of banking at Louisiana State university and senior fellow at the wharton school. I welcome our panel. We will begin with the honorable dr. Thank you, senator whitehouse and other members of the subcommittee for convening this panel on the matter of enormous importance. I am pleased to be here and reassure some of you i am still alive. It is several months ago after speaking to former epa administrator sitting in front of you, we were convinced by the overwhelming verdict of scientists the earth was warming. And we humans are the only controllable contributors. Given those facts, we all signed an