countries will include the united kingdom, bahrain, canada, france, italy and spain, among others. this is notjust a us issue, this is an international problem and it deserves an international response. and that s why i m convening a meeting tomorrow, a ministerial meeting, with fellow ministers in the region and beyond to address this threat. for exactly what this shipping disruption might mean for the global economy, i spoke to hung tran, who s a seniorfellow at the atlantic council and also former deputy director at the international monetary fund. this area of the red sea leading to the suez canal is quite important in terms of the volume of trade passing through it. about 12% of global trade passes through the red sea, including 30% of the container shipping. all together, it accounts for about us$1 trillion per year of world trade, so it is quite significant, and a disruption there would cause damage to world trade. aside from avoiding this area, what can companies do
speaking in bahrain, the us defense secretary lloyd austin said participating countries will include the united kingdom, bahrain, canada, france, italy and spain, among others. this is notjust a us issue, this is an international problem and it deserves an international response. and that s why i m convening a meeting tomorrow, a ministerial meeting, with fellow ministers in the region and beyond to address this threat. for exactly what this shipping disruption might mean for the global economy, i spoke to hung tran, a senior fellow at the atlantic council and former deputy director at the international monetary fund. this area of the red sea leading to the suez canal is quite important in terms of the volume of trade passing through it. about 12% of global trade passes through the red sea, including 30% of the container shipping. all together, it accounts for about us$1 trillion per year of world trade, so it is quite significant, and a disruption there would cause damage to
Today. We will hear more about the budget from bernie sanders. He will be at the Brookings Institution outlining his economic agenda addressing things like wage growth, climate change, and text policy. Tax policy. The Political Landscape has changed with the 114th congress. Not only are there 43 new republicans and 50 new democrats in the house and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, there is also 108 women and commerce, including the first africanamerican republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of the members of congress using congressional conical on www. Cspan. Org. The congressional chronicle page has lots of information coming putting Voting Results and statistics for each session of congress. New congress, best access, on cspan, cspan 2, cspan radio and www. Cspan. Org. Cyber security breaches, cases where personal information were compromised, how the government can respond in the Technology Available for making breaches l
I want to follow up on a couple of questions that the chairman asked. You make the point that preemption has sometimes been narrow. In fact, that concept of protection is that there should be preemption only if there are state laws inconsistent with federal laws and then only to the extent of the inconsistency. That is a quote from one of those statutes. In the Health Information Technology Act that principle of narrow preemption has been adopted. Has the experience than with that narrow approach to preemption that there are these horrible inconsistencies or confusion that are witnesses seem to raise of avoiding reaction . Know, senator. The concern from the state level, as you are aware, and we are assuming you guys will pass something this year it took 10 years or congress to pass a breach notification law. There are new threats out there or again, threats that specifically target a group of people, consumers in our state. Or there is a rapidly changing area. We want to be able to re
Athens from going bust. Get out of Facebook India Supreme Court strikes down a law for police to arrest people for comments online. The u. N. Special envoy to yemen says warring parties will meet in qatar for peace talks later this week to dampen an increasing conflict between Houthi Rebels and the president hadi. [chanting] people in yemens Third Largest city have been rallying against houthis after they took over much of the city on thursday. The houthis are said to have opened fire on the crowd killing one person injuring 11 and hadi foreign minister appealed for International Help to help the houthis advance and charlie has more. Reporter this is a country on the brink of civil war. But residents are not going quietly as thousands protest against the advance of shia houthi fighters in return they are fired on and tear gassed. The city yemens Third Largest was taken on sunday with government buildings and International Airport under houthi control and yemen is increasingly divided b