Successful career. According to his official biography on the commerce website, he has restructured over 400 billion in assets in virtually every industry in the American Economy, from insurance to oil and gas to trucking, banking, restaurants, real estate, and pretty much everything in between. Hes been a chairman or lead director of more than 100 Companies Operating in more than 20 Different Countries around the world with bipartisan support on february 27th of this year, wilbur ross became the 39th United States secretary of commerce. Secretary ross, welcome here to dentons. Well, nafta 2. 0 is the name of our event today. A topic about which of course all three countries are incredibly engaged in. Want to hear your comments in round four about whats going on. Why dont i leave that open. Round four started today. Highly anticipated. How are the renegotiations going in your view . I have asked my associated to hand out to you a little one sheet of paper. This shows the topics that ar
If we can understand place where is people think those arent working, we do want to understand that so we can work to improve. The gao shared their methodology with you, and those examples we are waiting for that, correct . We are looking forward to gao coming out with recommendations which is the part that has not yet occurred. Thank you. The president s commitment to Early Childhood education, its reflected in the Budget Proposal 1. 5 billion extra for early headstart and for headstart itself. Briefly, if you can tell us the budget levels and spending caps established by the majority, whats that going to do to the fact that you are trying to build capacity you are trying to stress quality and accountability for providers for these children . And what does that do to capacity . With regard to the levels i think that if you are going the meet those levels and you want to fully fund headstart, what it will mean are dramatic cuts to things like nih or cdc in terms of other places. I thin
Projections and also hear it from the private sector. The belief is, having come from the private sector and actually having come from a company that is known for its negotiating on price, walmart, the idea that we use Market Mechanisms to try and put downward pressure on price is something we think is important. Thats why weve asked for those authorities, so that we can try and work with the pharmaceuticals and negotiate to keep downward pressure on that price. Thats what we hope we can do. We see it as part of the overall issues that we are being asked about how we transform the system for the long term. We believe there are things we need to do and pressure we need to future. What do you see as some of the key problems that you are going to be having as you try and move forward with this . I think with regard to this particular issue its not one you know, it is a elect lative and a statutory issue. It will take a statutory change to grant the authorities to be able to negotiate. Tha
Jack kemp, known as tax cut kemp. We had the opportunity to work with paul when he was at empower america. When he was a back bench republican member. When he was chairman of the house budget committee. And then chairman of the ways and Means Committee. And now we are honored to continue working closely with him as he serves as speaker of the house of representatives. We value his commitment to the principles that hold the conservative movement together. And we look forward to continuing our close engagement with him, particularly as we work to transform americas tax system in a true kempian manner. Its my great honor and privilege to welcome back to the Heritage Foundation our good friend, speaker paul ryan. [applause] mr. Ryan look, first of all, to dr. Feulner and all the people here at heritage, thank you for having me. The first thing i want to say is i want to say how much we, each of us, myself included, owe to this man, ed feulner. [applause] mr. Ryan the conservative movement
Become t trump has captive by the g. O. P. Stablishment he campaigned so hard against. We ask for your opinions on the ultimatum. 2027488000. Twitter and us on cspan. President trump threatened to knock off y embers of the House Freedom caucus in next years elections if they dont fall in line, an xtraordinary move that laid bear of an escalating civil war with republican parties failing enact. In a series of tweets that began n the morning, the president warned that the powerful group of hardlined conservative who the house bill last week would, quote, hurt the entire public agenda if they get on the team and fast. Some of the tweets the president sent out yesterday. Will d the Freedom Caucus hurt the entire republican agenda if they dont get on the team and fast. Fight them, and democrats, in 2018. If congressman labrador would get on board, we would have both great healthcare and massive tax and reform. And repeal and replace obamacare. Lets look at what white house spicer saidary se