About 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. I guess it is afternoon now. Welcome to the Bipartisan Policy Center. I am the Senior Vice President here at the center and it is my pleasure to welcome you all here this afternoon to kick off our new agenda setters series. For those of you who may not be familiar with the Bipartisan Policy Center, we were established in 2007 by four former majority leaders of the United States senate, senator bob dole, the late howard baker,. Our goal is to explore timely and compelling and impactful issues and policy making and politics throughout 2015. Each event will highlight policy makers and decision in Decision Making roles and some like today who have only been recently placed in that role, putting forth innovative thinking about how to solve issues that challenge the country and indeed the world today. We are pleased to have senator thom tillis with us for this inaugural event. You have his bio. Elected in november senator tillis is the junior senator
Circulating. 10 minutes before we begin to wrap a. My name is [inaudible] washington d. C. Whats missing on discussions is the fact that islamists have nothing to offer except for sharia law and muslims are fed up with the sharia law. The other point is theres a new new generation of arabs that face the people. I wrote an article about this, who are very different than their fathers and grandfathers. Which we should be focusing on. Can make it to a question . Something we should be focusing on. Our democracy by islamist ideology. What shall we do about the threat to democracy the case arabs are going to sort their problems out. This is the first time theyre focusing on their own homegrown problems gloominess and israelis and other people. What should we do about the ideology that is focusing on destruction of democracies . Would anybody like to take out one . It begins by recognizing what it is. A couple of years ago before these Tahrir Square movement, there is a prominent article abo
Republican of North Carolina is stepping down from his seat in january to become the president of the Heritage Foundation. Next, senator Lindsey Grahm payr tribute to the outgoing senator. Madam president , i met with jim demint this morning, and i, to say i was stunned is an understatement. Jim indicated retiring from the senate next yearco taking over the presideny of h the Heritage Foundation, ah great conservative think tanks here in washington has. South carolina. At times playing the good cop, the bad cop, but always always trying to Work Together. And what differences weve had have been sincere, and thats the word i would use about senator demint. He sincerely believes in his cause. Hes a he sincerely believes in his causes. Hes a sincere voice that people in our party look to for leadership and guidance. What hes done over the last four years to build a conservative movement, to get people involved in politics, like marco rubio, who jim helped early on in his primary i just thi
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Processes are and stuff like that to where it is like, i dont know whether i want to say thats a major charm school faux pas or whatever. But is there anything that prohibits the f. C. C. This is where you need to end up so they can go through the processes so they at least feel like theyve had the processes at the state level before you get there . And we actually have joint boards that work with the National Association regulatory utility commissioners in identifying issues that need to be addressed and how do you address them together and who does that. So thats something we can follow up with and ongoing discussion of how that works. Yes. So this issue that youre discussing was adopted in 2011 before we got to the f. C. C. Before i got here. Ive spoken out against it because in some areas it will increase the rates rural americans pay up to 46 . So i hope we reevaluate that policy. Let me be clear. I didnt realize that was the specific issue you wanted to talk about congressman. Pr