4. 7 . I think disconcerting for a number of reasons, we are going to go over them. I hear that amazon might be growing sales in a doubledigit clip yearoveryear, including this one, i think about how big amazon is, i regard that as a discouraging trend for everybody else because theres simply no way that one retailer could see such an enormous uptick without it being zero sum, amazons game is somebody elses pain. House of pain. Second, i see amazon doing well, i recognize that amazon could be say even worse than walmart in its demands on those who use its web services, let alone the cutrate prices it offers. This company has spent billions building out its own online infrastructure in order to make a day like this one, cyber monday, seem like childs play meanwhile, target, which advertised so heavily this weekend for virtually every Football Game i watched saw its website crash, crash they just dont have it down third amazon strength is the malls weakness, i was heartened by very heart
The city. Scott, coauthor of buildings of the district of spoke at a e symposium at the White House Historical association, u. S. Society and rical James Madisons montpelier. Hour. Poke for about an thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker will be pamela scott, and pam is an old friend. I have known her for many, many years, and she is, i think, the authority on the history of public buildings in washington, d. C. She has been an architectural historian here in washington specializing in the architectural landscape and planning histories of the city and i have learned a tremendous amount from her over the years. Some of her books include the temple of liberty, buildings of the district of columbia, designing the nations capit capitol, and the fortress of finance, and pam is going to talk about Benjamin Henry latrobes work at the capitol. And, of course, latrobe is also the architect of Decatur House and st. Johns across the square, and so hopefully youll learn a great deal about this arc
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Problems in a number of ways. But quite often address them in ways they dont address the underlying problem itself but deal with the symptoms. And i think there are many examples of that. There are many i think if we think about International Tax broadly. What does the International Tax do. We go back to the 1920s compromise. Dividends, royalties, interests now that might seem like a good idea in the 1920s but causes problems. We have to figure out what royalties and dividends. And many of the problems of trying to allocate profits between different jurisdictions combined to those kind of problems. Weve already talked, for example, about how we is it corporations that plays effective management control and those kind of issues. So actually, as an aside an aside in five minutes, be quick, but the oecd, for example, is taking the existing system as a given. Started off by saying were going to have a fundamental review, but its taking those principles and trying to fix some of the problem
Certain information. Yes. But when it comes to priorities, he sets those priorities, not you. Were responsive to the committees priorities. And tell me, when tell me the priority list right now. What is that list . Number one. It is, number one is the production of documents that were requested regarding former officials, and the top of the list was for former secretary clinton. Number two are the interviews of the four Diplomatic Security agents we referenced. Thats not to say that the other requests are forgotten. Thats not it at all. What it is is to say those are the issues those are the items that we have worked most diligently on and we will be. We have good story that we are producing within several days we will begin producing to the committee those beginning of those documents that were requested. Its only been six weeks, roughly, since the initial request. And then a few about a month of the finalization of that. And in between that, weve prepared for hearings that didnt come