I think we will start if everybody has their coffee and we are ready to launch this. My name is jacky gillan and i am president for advocates of highway safety. I have the honor of introducing this mornings speaker, dr. Rosekind who is the 15th administrator of the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration and he was sworn into office this past december 2 22nd. I got to know him after he was appointed to serve on the National Transportation and safety board in 2010. We worked together on semple safety issues with impaired and distracted driving. Marks dedication is rooted in his professional life and professional career. He spoke about his father publically San Francisco Police Officer who tragically died into the line of duty by a driver who ran a red light. And like many other room in the men administrator rosekind married up. His wife is a successful pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco bay area. His studies and professional career prepared him well for the challenge of
We wish you the best of luck with the tax code. [laughter] thanks for raising the issue in being here. It is an important topic with that industry moving that there is a lot of music activity in atlanta but the music marketplace has changed to undergone radical changes over the next decade the year the top 100 singles sung by bryan adams and boys to men. Gore like to start with the threshold question about both Consent Decrees the the part of justice had a mandate with the decrees have a sunset provision these would terminate within 10 years in response to congressional action to strengthen the penalties for the sherman act violations so more than 35 years it is the policy should terminate of less exceptional circumstances are present. The os perspective but i think it is worth considering in context all were looking at today perot like to give each of you to respond for those whose support in the present form can i get a quick description of the music licensing market with that than a
Differently than that. Again, i was a military man for many years and i hear you say well, you know, people are coping with stress. And i got to say, please, oh please. Because lots of people experience stress. This is a stressful jobs. Theres lots of stressful jobs. Military members experience acute stress and would never protect nor sanction the behavior such as this. And i can give you many examples from young airmen to new lieutenants to senior colonels, in some cases generals who were caught dui on base and they were just gone. They were dismissed. And we knew that. And the military was better because we knew that was the rule. And we knew that we would be held accountable for that and the American People were better and our nation was better protected because we had a culture that we simply dont entertain this. And for someone to have done that and to have one of their peers or supervisors protect them is hard for me to imagine that that would happen. In our cases, we were dealin
The majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from indiana, mrs. Brooks, for five minutes. Mrs. Brooks i ask unanimous consent to address the chamber for up to five minutes. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mrs. Brooks thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to discuss the sobering but extremely consequential topic of christian persecution. Last week i had the honor of visiting with more than 100 parishioners at st. Al fon as Catholic Church in zionsville indiana. Including many Interested High School students who shared with me their passionate concerns about the senseless persecution of their christian brethren. Through the churchs social action committee, they wanted to know
It just popped into my head that one of our faculty he was giving a speech, a commencement speech and there was a project in the phd student said i dont know if i can do that. He said i would not have asked you to do that if i did not think you could do that. There is a profoundly validated element pushing places. That is a great management style. Can ask you one more questions before you eat open before we open it to the floor . You think about your role in the senior team in helping to keep twitter can you talk about how you keep and think about that part of the inwardfacing role . Gabriel the culture is a living, breathing thing. Especially in the Technology World where you have Companies Like twitter that are young twitter is going to be nine later this year. You imagine this has been there forever but it has not. Not even close. Yet, because of the cycle of our role in the media and Technology World, there is a sense of attachment to things, including culture. Even in Companies Li