Discuss Administration Policy priorities including Prescription Drug prices, clean energy, the economy, and funding the semiconductor industry. He spoke for about 10 minutes. Pres. Biden is everybody in . Ok. It is good for us to be together. Pres. Biden over the past 10 months, we have won passage of some extraordinary parts of our economic agenda. Bipartisan infrastructure law, the biggest infrastructure package since the eisenhower administration, with help from our friends on the others of the aisle. The chips act, the lock to spur investment in microchips. Which i may point out were invented here in the United States of america. The chips act is a gigantic investment and is going to create a number of jobs and technologies for the future. The Inflation Reduction Act law brings down the cost of Prescription Drugs, health care premiums, and invests in made in america, clean energy future. Along with other steps we have taken like the American Rescue plan, student debt relief, it is
Members of congress and potential conflicts of interest in what could be next for members of congress, i want to ask you today what are some of the important rules for like that . It is effectively the rules of the road that pass for congress and decade ago. This was in response to span rules that had taken place in the medium rules before not nested in the immediate the stock act tackled three times, it tackled concepts of interest where investors would be public decisions that they are making on behalf of the body politic. Another one whence Insider Trading where lawmakers would in some cases have used information that they had gleaned by virtue of being a member of congress i being an elective an elected official and then though the third prong of that was transparency giving the public more knowledge, and more details more quickly so that we could see what lawmakers were doing. It was effectively adding another layer of security to the process so that voters had the information to
Your questions into the chat or send us questions on twitter. Without further ado, max boot, the Jeanne Kirkpatrick fellow in Natural National Security Studies and contributor to the Washington Post. General philip dash, former supreme allied commander in europe and a great friend of the Eurasia Center. Senior policy researcher at the rand corporation. Anything she writes is worth reading. We have a National Security correspondent at the wall street journal, fresh back from purse on. We have andre mckee is going to be late, he is the former minister of defense and distinguished fellow at the Eurasia Center and chairman of a great think tank in kyiv called the center for defense strategies. If you are not getting his daily updates, get online and have a look. I want to make the most of our time and go to kick us off. Two weeks ago, ukraine launched its longawaited counteroffensive to retake territory in the south. How much territory do you expect ukraine to liberate . What are the chall
Thank you very much, and thank you very much for everyone showing up this afternoon. Those were very generous comments and i am honored to be here today. At the stimson center, an institution named for and inspired by a man who helps guide the nation through some of the most difficult challenges that we have ever faced. And an organization that i remember calling upon for guidance and assistance on many occasions particularly when i was working for sam nun who i had the pleasure to work with for about 17 years. And i remember spending at the old office north of Dupont Circle many a day talking to bury and mike and the team of experts on proliferation issues, loose nukes, chemical and biological warfare issues. So its a Great Institution and its an honor to come back here. Little did i know two months ago, approximately two months ago when we got together and talked about this, how good stimson was and it really is today i realized how good they are. Two months ago when we picked this d
Not engage in. Moderator ms. Raimondo cameras on briefly to mr. Fung. He wants to know why you did higher than a firm that . Raimondo. Thank you for the chance to clarify. I have a policy that anytime a contract observer put it out today. When this came up, we put it out today. Unfortunately, only to firms replied to the rsv and the principles of both firms were involved in 38 studios. So we did the best that we could and a committee unanimously approved hiring them. However, we hired them in a way that allows us to fire them at any time for any reason without penalty. So if at this point its not clear they did anything wrong. If at some point it becomes clear they did something wrong, then obviously we will fire them and they will be held accountable. Moderator mr. Fung, i know youre answering on transition to ask a question. You never answered mine. Fung first of all, he has not been campaigning with me, so that is false. I can also bring the voters know about the general treasury sa