Tonight on going to conference with the u. S. Senate. Live coverage of the house now on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. December 4, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable Bradley Byrne to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of wisdom, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The great compromise, Benjamin Franklin addressed the constitutional convention. We indeed seem to feel our the want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. Have we now forgotten our powerful friend . Lord, you are the
[laughter] on the cyber threat and obviously there has been a lot of opens on that in reaction to the election, is the u. S. Is doing enough to counter disinformation in europe and around the world . Is the u. S. Doing enough . More we is a great deal could do. I talked to my european counterparts every week. It is russia, russia, russian they are worried about. Call it what you will, they are worried about increase, physical interference as well. These threats are very real. We have made a lot of progress assisting them and have done really good work alongside them, so we not only have russian information but lots of others. It is not just russia engaged in active measures around the world. Secretary panetta listen, were and thera of hybrid war ability to use cyber is part and parcel of the effort to destabilize other countries and becoming not only for effective it is becoming the kind of tool of preference now because it is a way to do it that does not necessarily cost lives. It can
Thank you. Thank you very much. It is great to be here. Great to be with you. In the back there, they said to just call them two italians. [laughter] i will go with cia director mike pompeo and former director and former white house chief of staff leon panetta. I want to tell you that we will have questions from the audience at the end of this session and you can ask them by going to the rndf app. Www. Rndf2017. Org. Twitter is rndf. We will take some of the questions from their at the end of the session and will hear from you. We want to start the questions. I was told i had Carte Blanche to ask anything. [laughter] dont forget youve got two italians. [laughter and applause] i was also told i could refuse to answer. [laughter] let me start with this. If you were secretary of state for the trump administration, how would you handle all right. [laughter] understanding what the president tweeted, have you had talks about another job . Very focused on doing what i am doing. In spite of ot
Next, a forum on global security, this Panel Focused on a recent reviews by the navy. We heard testimony from the vice chief of Naval Operations. Its two hours. Im going to ask everyone to come back in and take your seats. Weve had two excellent keynote briefs this morning. Both our speakers spoke to the comprehensive review the u. S. Navy issued the comprehensive review of the issues at sea, that occurred within the last year. One cruiser that grounded another that was involved in a collision with a chinese ship. And two destroyers that collides with large merchant ships that resulted in a loss of life that comprehensive review was conducted over the past well, it took about 60 days and was reported out about 30 days ago, and presented and we thought wed invite a few folks in here today to talk about the extent of it the adequacy of it, and perhaps the meaning of it we have three experienced warfare officers, three individuals who have stayed close to the profession, either through th
Consolidated case 16477, the new jersey thoroughbred Horsemens Association versus ncaa. Mr. Olson. Thank you chief justice, and may it please the court. One of the most important decisions made at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was replacing the failed confederacy that governed states with a National Government that could regulate individuals but not states. In the words of this court in the new york case, congress may regulate interstate commerce directly, but it may not regulate states regulation of interstate commerce. Mr. Olson, isnt that what the government does whenever it preempts state law . It says you cant regulate . When the government preempts state laws, the government, the federal government has initially taken the position or taken an action to regulate interstate commerce in some respect, and when it does that, this court has repeatedly held it may preempt contradictory or inconsistent state laws. So what do you make of ferc. Pardon . What do you make of ferc . T