On the council. I want to say a few words of thanks and welcome. Let me thank marissa shannon, laura bresnehan and alex grigsby for helping put this together. We want to thank pwc, which has provided funding to help us run this and a number of other programs in the digital and cyberspace policy program. Like many of the other think tanks, we are doing more and more work in this space. Just this month we published a cyber brief giving some policy recommendations on how they can counter russian operation information if you havent seen that, please take a look. Its available on the website. Last month we ran we rolled out a Cyber Operations tracker. Thats the website you might have seen when you walked in. It is a list of publicly revealed state Cyber Operations back to 2005. We have approximately 200 known incidents. And the plan is to add more as they happen and as they become more known to us. Please check that out. Its updated every quarter. If you have an incident that we dont know a
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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning to this roundtable of the secretary of affairs will come to order. I want to welcome our participations we will call them, witnesses, where we have the honorable elaine duke, claire brady, george scott and john kelly from dhs, as well as the office of Inspector General. This roundtable is to discuss the attempt to reauthorize dhs, the house is past their bill and they had a memorandum of understanding to consolidate that entire process under the department or committee of Homeland Security in the house and its been a little more messier here in the senate which is not unusual in the Commerce Committee was taken up in past authorization of tsa and coast guard and we have a number of components and my staff keeps telling me the summer of 40 or percent and that is what we are here to talk about today. I think its accurate to say that with the house authorization does is and this is what we do in the
Americans are insecure about tomorrow. Our economy is not undergoing a downturn. It is undergoing massive transformation. It is like the Industrial Revolution happening every five years. The question we must answer is are we going to embrace it or are we going to ignore it, fight against it, and get left behind. In the absence of our leadership, which you leave behind as a vacuum. America never asked for this job of being the global leader. For some reason we dont fully understand, fate has given it to us. We either accepted or the world will become a darker more difficult place to live in. The chaos that follows makes the world more dangerous and less profitable. With that inspirational closing i think we should let senator rubio get on with his day. Will everybody please stay standing . Fair and balanced. Thank you every much thank you very much. Them political has put together 199 quotes from donald trump, calling it the most donald trump thing donald trump has ever said. A couple o
We will discuss ways to improve the business provisions of the u. S. Tax code with an eye toward creating jobs and boosting wages for American Workers and improving our countries overall business climate. This hearing is part of our ongoing effort following years of tax hearings and last weeks hearing on individual reform. To report comprehensive tax reform legislation later this year. Members of both parties recognize the need to reform the way we tax businesses in the United States. As a former president as former president obama noted when discussing his own framework for Business Tax Reform, the Current System, quote, does too little to encourage job creation and investment in the United States while allowing firms to benefit from incentives to locate production and shift profits ov overseas. Ent kwoed. As we know, many elements of a particular businesss tax burden depend on the companys organizational form. For example, C Corporations are taxed at the Corporate Tax rate. According