Thank you. We have to recognize the Senior Member here. It is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues, ive worked with ever member of this panel in some form of another inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the law and security that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined with you to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand the theme here is every single one of these distinguished Public Servants, served in the executive branch in the National Security community and the searching topic for today is how has that service informed your view as legislators and how can we be best poised from b
We have to recognize the Senior Member here, and treat to welcome current and former colleagues and i have worked with this panel in some form or another inside and outside of government. It is a treat to welcome everybody here on the nyu school of Law Community where i am a distinguished fellow. Welcome to the program and my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time, and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand that the theme here is that every single one of the distinguished Public Servants served in the executive branch in the National Security community and the searching topic for today is how has that service informed your view as legislators and how can we be best poised from both branches perspective to confront some of
Weve done for bringing out examples around the world that other countries have found ways to think about Human Capital in broader and often more successful ways than the United States. Clearly when you think about Human Capital, you need to start from prek. You need to get kids early. You need to invest in them to make the school ready. You need places to provide quality education so they are prepared to go on. Access to Community College and Higher Education clearly play a role. Another things that we dont put much emphasis on but others have is working on apprenticeship. What do you do for the large number of people that are not going to go onto Higher Education. How do you give opportunities for them. Those countries have opened up a broad range of jobs that pay off. They clearly raise earnings. About 300,000 increase in participation in it. The return on every public dollar in some cases 23 for every 1 invested in these programs. They play a vital role for those with less than High
Issue. I commend the epa for working on this rule. Do you have a conference that this final rule is protective of health and the environment, are there gaps in the protections under this rule that would need to be filled by legislation . I believe the rule is very strong and very protective. And in terms of any gaps we dont believe there are any gaps. We believe all the risks are put in place. All the rigorous technical information. What about beneficial reuse . Will this rule restrict beneficial reuse in anyway to stigmatize coal ash . We dont believe it will. The real clarity is not subject to the rule. But still i expect were going to hear from the second panel that legislation is needed to remove epas authority to regulate cole ash under subtitle c in the future. What factors might lead epa to some day regulate coal ash under subtitle c. To be clear we had proposed an approach under d and c. We made a decision under d the seat proposal is no longer on the table. Like any other rule
Role. Another things that we dont put much emphasis on but others have is working on apprenticeship. What do you do for the large number of people that are not going to go onto higher education. How do you give opportunities for them. Those countries have opened up a broad range of jobs that pay off. They clearly raise earnings. About 300,000 increase in participation in it. The return on every public dollar in some cases 23 for every 1 invested in these programs. They play a vital role for those with less than High School Education or High School Education for good paying jobs in the future. Fantastic. I would also like to ask jennifer who provided a lot of good ideas around innovation and innovation clusters in looking how regions can adopt strategies for Economic Growth. Jennifer, can you share your views . Yes. Thanks so much. I appreciate having been invited to be part of this because as the former government of michigan representing a part of the country that really has been the