While, why dont we start. The microphone is on, and welcome to all of you. I am a professor at yale law school, and the director of our chinacentric. And i am delighted that we are doing this event, which is part of a formal collaboration that our center has with the john thorton chinacentric here. It has been a very valuable collaboration, and this is the first inperson person event that we have had related to the covert restrictions and it is wonderful to be here, to see you, and see our colleagues and friends. The topic, as you know, is United States, china and europes different visions of the International Order. And we have a group here that is ideally suited for that, a multisyllabic title. First moderating the event is ryan hoss, who has recently and splendidly been named the director of the john thorton chinacentric here. He china center here. He is a major figure in the china relations. Sitting next to him is susan thorton, a senior fellow at the chinacentric china center, and
Hour. While, why dont we start. The microphone is on, and welcome to all of you. I am a professor at yale law school, and the director of our chinacentric. And i am delighted that we are doing this event, which is part of a formal collaboration that our center has with the john thorton chinacentric here. It has been a very valuable collaboration, and this is the first inperson person event that we have had related to the covert restrictions and it is wonderful to be here, to see you, and see our colleagues and friends. The topic, as you know, is United States, china and europes different visions of the International Order. And we have a group here that is ideally suited for that, a multisyllabic title. First moderating the event is ryan hoss, who has recently and splendidly been named the director of the john thorton chinacentric here. He china center here. He is a major figure in the china relations. Sitting next to him is susan thorton, a senior fellow at the chinacentric china cente
Energy anymore. That process took place pretty quickly after the giant impact. Very small fraction of the age of the solar system. That must have all been a long time ago. Its not contributing to the Energy Budget currently. Well take three questions. One question as only so we can get through media. Well go to the phone lines take a couple questions from social media and come back here. Cliff mcmurray im one of the people in the room that can remember when the first pictures came back from mariner 4. At the time you could hear the balloons popping the atmosphere is thinner that i thought it was. Tonight i hear excitement but i dont hear balloons popping. It seems plutow is kind of the world that we thought it would be. Im completely surprised. I would disagree with the assertion. In my case, i certainly didnt expect charon to show nearly the degree of different terrains and variety or the surface that it does show. Thats a complete surprise. Thats a balloon popping. In addition, i thi
And of course there are a lot of things we need to do. Make sure we finally the Women Equal Pay for equal work. [speaking in native tongue] and i am going to say this is not just a womens issue. This is a family economic issue. If people are not being paid fairly that hurts everybody, the Small Business that does not get enough customers because people cannot afford with there selling. I mean that is a growth strategys. A growth strategy. The more we equalize what people are paid according to there own effort the better off we we will be. Our longterm strategy we must make investments that we will grow our economy and research and investment, infrastructure. It is beyond my understanding that we are having a partisana partisan battle in congress. We are in a global competition. Other countries are investing in there infrastructure command i do not mean the physical infrastructure come as important as that is the more roads and airports and bridges. I mean our virtual infrastructure. We
[inaudible conversations] this hearing of the subcommittee is called to order. We have a vote scheduled for 3 00 which is troublesome. Well see how this goes as far south we have a circumstance when it arises. I would like to thank todays witnesses for participating in this important hearing regarding International Soccer governance. Im not one who generally thinks congress should investigate every scandal in the world of professional sports. Nor do i believe the topic we are discussing today will lead to legislation that must be enacted. But as chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over professional sports, i do believe this is a critical issue that deserves the publics attention. By shining a light on the corruption bribery and other criminal activity that has been a part of International Soccer for far too long, my hope is that the American People current and future sponsors, and Media Companies that support the game today will better understand the consequences of allowin