Internet education foundation. It is three and a half hours. [chatter] hello. Alright, lets get going. He has a long day ahead of us. Welcome everybody. So, i am the executive director of the internet a dictation foundation which coordinates the state of the net conference. Welcome to the 20th annual date of the net which seemed to need to be insane because i didnt think we would get to the second annual. But there is a totally different story. I would like to make a profound Statement Today about what 20 years needs, where we are at what point in time, internet policy we are in time now looking back over the 20 years of internet policy, the ebb and flow. Something certainly new. We are we talk of internet policy because we feel like something is happening in the next 20 years will be even more exciting than the last 20 years. That said, a lot of the issues we dealt with 20 years ago are still in play today. We are at an incredibly important Inflection Point in history when it comes to
A conversation on Political Parties now with lee trautman, senior fellow at new america, the author of the 2020 breaking the twoparty doom loop. His most recent paper entitled more parties, better parties, the case for pool Party Democracy reform. Why do we have Political Parties in first place and considering the state of politics right now, might it be better to do away with parties at the moment . I understand a lot of people are frustrated with the performance of our two Political Parties. But, basic reality of modern mass represented of democracy is that you cant do it without Political Parties. Political parties are inevitable and essential as institutions of Representative Democracy because something needs to organize politics. Something and if it is not a Political Parties, then, it will just be charismatic autocrats or chaos. Political parties structure elections, they build majorities in the legislature, they engage and mobilize voters, they build coalitions. Political partie
[national anthem] [national anthem] will we begin with a fox news alert. The house voting the pass the 95 billion. Foreign aid package yesterday. House Speaker Mike Johnson dodging his ouster vote for now despite the bill already receiving backlash from both sides of the aisle. Pete Madeleine Rivera is live in washington with the details. Reporter House Speaker johnson is calling the world a tinder box that needs american leadership. The 95 billion aid package if includes money for israel, ukraine and the indopacific. It passed with rare bipartisan support. But funding for ukraine, about 60 billion, was the most contentious in the bill. A red line for hardline conservatives and the reason for a monthslong stalemate. The vote on ukraine was 311112 with all a democrats in support and more than half of ore palin opposed. Republicans opposed. House democrats began waving the ukrainian flag on the floor causing the chair to call for decorum. Kentucky senator rand paul slammed the move calli
2. 6 billion by the end of the next parliament. Then, by giving hmrc more money and cracking down on tax that should be paid, but isnt, they think they would raise this 5 billion a year within the next few years. There is a question of ambition here, about how much labour wants to do if it wins power, and what we are hearing is here is a few billion. Small change in Big Government terms, is that it . £5 billion is not small change. It is in terms of government spending. Well, £5 billion will mean that we can have two million additional appointments in the nhs, so to clear the. Let me tell you about the ambition because it is huge. At the moment there are more than Seven Million on nhs waiting lists. This will mean that every year an additional two million appointments can take place. It means for people who cant get a dentist on the nhs, 700,000 additional appointments, and for every Primary School child, a free breakfast club. Conservative ministers say they are working hard mona ch
Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. I am jen omalley and im the chair and im joined by migrate friend, larry cohen, vice chairman of the commission and i call the meeting to order. I would like to first ask the members and those with us to join in the pledge of llegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and stice for all. Patrice you, i now ask o call the roll. Mr. Baker. Ms. Bower, ms. Flores, congresswoman fudge, ms. Harris,. R. Went, ms. Cliff miscohen. Ms. Lewis. Mr. Newport, mr. Neary. Mr. Roosevelt. Ms. Rue ease. Ms. Turner, mr. Weaver. Mr. Webb, mr. Rugby. Ms. Omalley. And mr. Cohen. We are missing a few Commission Members but we have a quorum. And i would like to start today by acknowledging chairman perez who is here and we are thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that, his leadership of the democrats and the national par