Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen
Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen
[applause] good evening, everybody. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is Alice Fitzgerald and im the 112th president of the press and incoming investigations editor of the associated press. We had a terrific program tonight. I dont think ive ever seen a book around here that is as old, so thanks for coming. We invite you to listen, watch and follow along on twitter clubdc at dclive. If you have questions this evening, there will be question cards around the room. Writes the questions on the card and pass it to the end of the line and they will be sent up to me. We will leave plenty of time for questions. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge our headliners team, the chairs laurie russo of Communications Online with dc media strategy and staff at liaison Lindsey Underwood who put this event together this evening. So, we are delighted to have with us tonight New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and kate kelly, the authors of the education of Brett Kavanaugh. [applause]
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Thank you for being here. Good day. Can i say good day. Absolutely tell us about the Prime Minister who is he. Scott morrison is a conservative politician. At times he is far more wellknown for being an economic conservative, being hawkish about Border Security. He is a christian. But he has gone out of his way to make sure his faith isnt part of his politics. We are having a debate in australia at the moment about religious freedom legislation after the passage of samesex marriage. And he is really trying to to find a path thats not about his faith and about making sure his faith is paramount. Instead he tries to make sure that the rules of the road are simple, that regardless what have faith you have you cant be discriminated for well having that view in public. How much what has been the focus of his first year in office . Well it was turbulent time. He had been the treasurer in the the liberal party came in power in australia in 2013. We had a tumultuous time of leadership changes.