You can take your seats. We want to take advantage ofg to the opportunity to give the secretary some time for the give and take and the dialog that we are going to embrace here for the next couple ofhink hours. I think we can proceed on the first issue so that we can get so, firs to the chairman, it is of no controversy. Mor so, first, let me call the waysa and Means Committee to order, before turning to our hearing thise morning, the committees aint budget for fiscal year 1974. 2021 in accordance with the congressional budget act, of 1974 in house rules for f, you will find a copy of the letter ininbr front of them, you will receiveubmit it in advance of todays notice the. Thank you for working with me on refl able to wholcan submit a conse document that reflects the a priorities of the ways and n means community. They will consider as open for amendment r at any point, and if there are no amendments i will now recognize mr. Thompson for the purpose of offering a motion. Imat i move t
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Traitered take their positions. Plus the best stock ideas for 2020 the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this tuesday. Our Investment Committee joe, stephanie, john, courtney, president of Capital Markets private wealth management. One of forbes top 100 advisers lets begin with that new milestone for stocks as s p sits within 2 of its best year since 1997 joe terranova, s p, nasdaq 100 new high russell 2,000, 52week high. Emerging markets, 52week high. Left our europe. Pretty good nikkei 25, 52week high. World is rallying. Risk back on. High bet, take exposure is what near term investors want from the market laggards are really rallying right now. I would argue when you look at the laggers, the ones that have limited Growth Opportunities and thats why it has not been a premium paid for them during the year, i want to look at the laggards from early in the year that began to recover early in the quarter. I think t
Artificial intelligence and the role of the United States. On stage. To my immediate left, is andrea thompson. She was the former under secretary of state for arms control. She was the National Security advisor to the Vice President and most importantly, 25 years of service flying in combat zones and served your country nobly. I am thrilled to see my old friend here. As many of you know, she was the former deputy National Security advisory advisor. She was the Deputy Director of the cia. She is currently at columbia university. The underus today is secretary of defense for policy. She was the cofounder and ceo and is the cofounder and managing partner at west exec advisors. Who are helping a lot of small companies. Openingd to make remarks. I will keep them brief because we have had a long day and we have covered a lot of ground. I think we have talked about research, applications, talent. This notion of the Global Positioning or the geostrategic positioning is one that is really found
Good morning to you. Good morning. Remind people about the hearings yesterday. What was the purpose of specifically looking at boeing . The purpose of the hearing, theres many folds to it, but in particular the senate needs to be looking at whether the delegation of the authority to boeing to oversee a large portion of its operations and for safety certification should continue or whether they need to make changes. There were a lot of questions aimed at that. How much oversight power does the faa give . Unfortunately, almost entirely. There have been many studies. In fact, back when i was Inspector General we did a review of the boeing certification of the boeing 777. Its now a 25yearold plane. We found that boeing had 9598 selfcertification. Congress endorsed it to turn over to boeing and other manufacturers and certain processes of airlines the ability to selfcertify, to inspect itself, to certify that it has met the parameters of the faa, that it has met the requirements and certify