Oklahoma, an awardwinning journalist and the author of multiple books, this being the most recent. For two decades in the school of journalism, more recently in the school of international and public affairs. Before we begin, let me thank the Madison Public Library, Madison Public Library foundation. All the sponsors who contributed to making this a successful event and the director of the book festival who organized this celebration of books and authors over the four day weekend. On behalf of the Madison Institute i want to thank the w foundation, charitable arm of the Capital Times and many individual donors of Madison Institute who help our efforts to support and illuminate issues of public policy. Ann nelson will cast light on how the council for International Policy which was created in 1981 is worked for four decades to channel money and people to influence the outcome of our elections and public policy. The book is been praised by a number of individuals including nancy mclean w
Are here in the room and all of you watching at home at cspan book tv, we are delight today start the third day of this years fourth day celebration, today we will do 32 events, i hope you are all staying all day. [laughter] we couldnt be more delighted, thank you for making more time in the morning and check out schedule and come back for more things tomorrow, we will star today, how we win, shes in conversation with hannah and i will send you over to them. [applause] okay, what have i dont . Anyone who knows me, technology is not my friend. [laughter] hi, welcome to madison. Thank you. Let me just tell you a little bit about sarah, her bio is on the website, its in your information and its on the book that you all will be buying many copies of. [laughter] but sarah is a very incrediblable woman, she was getting ready to leave after president bush the second and getting ready to go until Hillary Clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what youre doing and she said
From the same conference, discussion on Civic Engagement in the contemporary university setting. This portion is an hour and 20 minutes. All right, everybody, lets get started. Welcome back. I am yuval levin of the American Enterprise institute and i want to thank you very much for being here. I noticed quite a ways to go for a lot of people who are here, one of the best things about these gatherings for all of us is just being together and getting a sense of the kind of community of people thinking about these questions together, we are enormously grateful for it and getting started, i want to say a word of thanks to my colleagues for getting this together, building this community over the last few years and showing extraordinary leadership and i want to give them a hand, for the work they are doing. We get the bad cleanup in this session and there is some cleanup to do and in some ways it is related to the technical subject of the session which is also convenient because a lot of the
Trade commission joining us now to talk about Artificial Intelligence and campaign 2024. Good morning. Lets start with the Abundance Institute. Guest the Abundance Institute is a new Mission Driven nonprofit to create the cultural en let us start with the abundant institute this is our explicit goal to a boat policy environment that allows emerging technologies, including a. I. To germinate, bloom and to flourish. We think that is the major road to widespread human prosperity and we are excited to tackle the big problems that we think are in the United States right now. So much so the director of policy specifically to that part that reflects the concern they have a. I. Has huge potential to create widespread human abundance. There is this new set of tools. A. I. Has been around for a long time. You and i have talked about it in the past. This new set of generative a. I. Creates a whole new set of tools that i think empowers individuals to really create new and powerful types of commun
Chair and Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on china. They discuss the acquisition of u. S. Farmland by china and security concerns related to the food sector. Congressman Glenn Thompson chairs the house and Agriculture Committee. Congressman Glenn Thompson of pennsylvania chairs the house Agriculture Committee. The Committee Comes to order and thank you for joining the the e committee will come t order. Good morning and thank you all for joining for todays hearing, the danger china poses to american agriculture. After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our Witnesses Today and the hearing will be open to questions. We traditionally dont do questions with our panels of our colleagues, but i know governor noem was interested in taking a few questions. Timeline wise i dont know if we will do a full five minute round with the governor. Five minutes of questions as normal. So, good morning and thank you all for being here for a timely and necessary conversa