Hartman, pace communications, kelly services, thank you, carl for everything you do, the independent womens forum, Arizona State university, the aerospace corporation, and the [inaudible] [inaudible] and the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the National Aeronautics association. Our sponsors, lets give a round of applause for all our sponsors. We have a terrific lineup over the next two days. We will have conversations on the new administration and congresss first 100 days, we will look at the prospects for bipartisanship or as we heard earlier, bipolarship. The outlook for tax reform, immigration, infrastructure, a few little issues we are dealing with as a country. We will take a step back from Public Policy and discuss issues of Corporate Governance policy which has been a long focus of cd and our colleagues at the host it. E will we honor ambassador Barbara Barrett and we will present her with the leadership interest award followed by a conversation with barbara about her
Democrats, with that friday deadline question mark they have been working hard throughout the race is trying to get an agreement to fund the government beyond friday. Are still significant problems, talks of funding for president Donald Trumps proposed order while its certainly an issue, as are some payments related to the 2010 Health Care Law. There are still issues to work through. Theres very little time to complete them. You are writing about Mick Mulvaney, in the headlines your piece is that mulvaney sharpens white house demand for border wall funding. What do they want out of it . They want roughly a billion dollars for the construction of the border wall. It is unclear if they will get any funding, because democrats have been clear for weeks that it is a nonstarter. They see it as an inefficient way to secure the border, and they are unlikely to support a bill with that funding in it. However, the white house has been pushing hard in the past few days, making noise insisting on