Good morning ladies and gentlemen. If you will kindly take your seats. Latecomers will be accommodated. There are handovers over on the right you will want to have with you or take away with you. Please help yourself to some coffee. Welcome to use China Business council. This is a press conference talking about our annual member survey, and it will be done in three parts. The first part i will introduce our president craig allen, and then after that our Senior Vice President jake parker will walk you through some of the highlights of the survey and then we will open it to questions. So at this point its my pleasure to introduce you to president alan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. My name again is craig allen and on the president of use China Business council, and would like to welcome you here to discuss our most recent survey which we are releasing here today. So thank you again for joining us. So just a couple of words of background at this sta
Inclusion and take that on as a special badge of honor that our staff has had special training to work with people with any type of learning disabilities, challenges or anything like that. If you see theres a need were not meeting, please let us know, because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] i spent over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry, and ill tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around Flight Controllers, directors over the last four years that ive been here. Have just been a fantastic experience for me. Many of these gentlemen, weve been involved with either planning discussions like this, or have been a part of the Mission Control that has been restored as a National Historic landmark where they actually had the missions up through shuttle but also included the Lunar Landing for apollo landing and other great space flights. If you have not gotten your ticket for that, hopefully you will today. They
Or not sure . If you say you are optimistic, 2027488000 is the number to call. 2027488001 if you say you are pessimistic and if you are not sure, 2027488002. You are welcome to share your to share yourr twitter thoughts on our twitter feed at cspanwj and our Facebook Page, you can participate in a poll at facebook. Com cspan. Andw poll done by cbs yougov takes a look at sentiments about the u. S. Economy. Those responded saying 38 of those polled saying they were optimistic about the future of the economy and 35 described themselves as pessimistic. 27 saying they were unsure. Idea ofcomes to the optimism, people are asked why they thought that way. 45 looked at the job market saying it was a sign of optimism naming the economy itself and looking at trade policy. They asked the same poll about personal finances as an indicator of weather people were pessimistic or optimistic. 40 saying when it comes to looking at finances, they were the same as two years ago. 29 saying their finances we
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Host good morning. It is saturday, march 16, 2024. The house passed a bill this week that has the potential to band tiktok in the United States, but the legislation faces a tougher time in the senate. Increasing tensions between top u. S. Democrats and israels leadership first into the open with a speech from Chuck Schumer calling for a change in leadership amid the ongoing conflict in gaza. We want to hear your top new story of the week. 202 7488000. Republicans on 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. If you would like to text us that number is 202 7488003. Please be sure to include ynd where you are writing from. On social media facebook. Com cspan or on x cspanwj. That tiktok legislation passed with bipartisan support in the house. Republican Mike Gallagher who cosponsored the bill to regulate the app and is the chair of the flex committee on the u. S. China competition defended the legislation on the house floor. Tiktok is a threat to our national security, because it is owned b