Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
To solve him on this one. Right now, we are gonna shift over to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit. We have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the extreme right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four Different Countries egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador. She was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and thugs portfolio and she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the deputy chief in baghdad and ankara. At the end, doctor vaez was on the International Crisis group where he previously served as
Welcome back. We didnt solve all the problems in the last pane panel so we wiy to solve them on this one so there will be an easier time when he comes. Right now we are going to shift over it to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit we have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four different countries, egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador and she was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and food portfolio than she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the d
From the honorable randal quarles, Federal Reserve vice chairman for supervision; the honorable jelena mcwilliams, chairman of the fdic; and the honorable rodney hood, chairman of the ncua. Welcome to all of you. This hearing provides the committee an opportunity to examine the current state of and recent activities related to the regulatory and supervisory activities of these agencies. It has been over a year now since the enactment of s. 2155, the Economic Growth, regulatory relief and Consumer Protection act, and the work of the agencies to implement most of the laws provisions, including the tailoring rules for u. S. Banks and u. S. Operations of foreign banks. Your agencies should also carefully review the existing supervisory frameworks and make any necessary adjustments to appropriately align them with the tailoring rules and requirements. On july 30, 2019, all of the Republican Banking Committee members and i sent a letter to the federal banking regulators urging your agencies
My honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. So what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. So i wanted to introduce our panelists. The first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the Carnegie Mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the africanamerican studies in the urban life and economy