Global development initiatives. From the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon. And welcome. My name is mark hamrick. I am a former president of the National Press club. I am currently president of the society of American Business editors and writing and Washington Bureau chief with bank rate. Com. The National Press club is the worlds leading professional organization for journalists, committed to our professions future, through our programming with events such as this while working to foster a free press around the world. For more information about the club, please visit the website at press. Org. To donate to programs offered for the public through the Journalism Institute visit press. Org institute. On behalf of our members worldwide i would like to welcome our speaker to those in the audience. The head table includes guests of the speaker as well as working journalist, club members. If you hear applause in the audience, wed note that members of the general public at
Expanding trade with africa. We may also hear more about the shortterm spending measure that republicans unveiled last night which would fund the federal government through february 16. Debate in the house likely tomorrow. Live house coverage is here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, architect of the universe and advocate for us all, thank you for giving us another day. When we rise from sleep activities of the day stir the mind, having a job to fulfill sets us into routine as a people with purpose. Daily work demonstrates responsibility and manifest our participation in your creative power. Mind and body together become engaged in productivity, success tenance or Service Beyond ourselves. Because human work bestows a special dignity upon a person and achieve a just society, we know how important it is for us to pray for the unemployed and those who work but still struggle
Coming up, next on cspan treasury secretary jack lew talking about the economic effects of Climate Change followed by president obamas recent visit to the u. N. Where he addressed the General Assembly and led a Security Council meeting on foreign terrorist fighters. Good afternoon. On behalf of the hamilton project thank you for joining us this afternoon for a public discussion of the Economic Costs of Climate Change. It is our privilege today to host u. S. Treasury secretary jacob lew who will give remarks on Climate Change and followed by a roundtable discussion between secretary lew and former treasury robert l suching bin and professor of economics at chicago Michael Green stone, before i turn it over to secretary ruben i would like to give a brief introduction to the project, and this is at the brook ings institution is named after Alexander Hamilton the first secretary who laid the foundation for the modern American Economy so its fitting we welcome two u. S. Treasury second secr
Welcome everyone. Good afternoon. We are delighted to be here today at the council on Foreign Relations where we have the opportunity to discuss with president kim of the world bank the next steps for International Climate action. Dr. Kim became the 12th president of the world bank in 2012 after a career in development and medicine. He served as president of Dartmouth College and a number of medical departments and cofounded partners in health, which now operates on four continents. His work has earned him wide recognition. He was awarded the mccarthurs genius fellowship in 2003. He is one of americas 25 best leaders. In 2005 and Time Magazine named him the 100 most influential person in 2005. He will be discussing Climate Change. With that, dr. Kim. [applause] thank you very much. And i apologize for the delay. We had his royal highness, the prince of cambridge here and was just across the street talking about crups and we had security issues. I apologize but im very glad to be here.
Impact on every Single Family in this country. It has an impact on my families that i represent and that is why i am so proud to stand here and support this legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from california is recognized. Mrs. Napolitano thank you, mr. Speaker. May i inquire the amount of time left on both sides . The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california has eight minutes. The gentleman from washington has 13 1 2 minutes. Mrs. Napolitano thank you, mr. Speaker. I would now yield four minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. Huffman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized for four minutes. Mr. Huffman i thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, some of our colleagues from other states may be experiencing a sense of deja vu right now. Yes, this is the second time this year that the house has voted on a California Water bill that would harm Northern Californi