Discuss Administration Policy priorities including Prescription Drug prices, clean energy, the economy, and funding the semiconductor industry. He spoke for about 10 minutes. Pres. Biden is everybody in . Ok. It is good for us to be together. Pres. Biden over the past 10 months, we have won passage of some extraordinary parts of our economic agenda. Bipartisan infrastructure law, the biggest infrastructure package since the eisenhower administration, with help from our friends on the others of the aisle. The chips act, the lock to spur investment in microchips. Which i may point out were invented here in the United States of america. The chips act is a gigantic investment and is going to create a number of jobs and technologies for the future. The Inflation Reduction Act law brings down the cost of Prescription Drugs, health care premiums, and invests in made in america, clean energy future. Along with other steps we have taken like the American Rescue plan, student debt relief, it is
Members of congress and potential conflicts of interest in what could be next for members of congress, i want to ask you today what are some of the important rules for like that . It is effectively the rules of the road that pass for congress and decade ago. This was in response to span rules that had taken place in the medium rules before not nested in the immediate the stock act tackled three times, it tackled concepts of interest where investors would be public decisions that they are making on behalf of the body politic. Another one whence Insider Trading where lawmakers would in some cases have used information that they had gleaned by virtue of being a member of congress i being an elective an elected official and then though the third prong of that was transparency giving the public more knowledge, and more details more quickly so that we could see what lawmakers were doing. It was effectively adding another layer of security to the process so that voters had the information to
This is the 9124th meeting of the Security Council, called to order. The provisional agenda is the threat to International Peace and security. The agenda is adopted in accordance with rule 37 of the provisional rules of procedure. I invite representatives of germany and ukraine to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. In accordance with rule 39 of the provisional rules of procedure, i invite the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. The Security Council will knock and well now begin consideration of item two of the agenda. I would like to invite secretary general Antonio Guterres, and give him the floor. Mr. President , your excellency, thank you for having organized this meeting on the situation inside and around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear power plant in the south of ukraine. I applaud the International Atomic Energy Agency and the mission for their courage. Let me also thank the parties for their cooperatio
Free the press. Brian journalism career has ranged across rod caston on line media and stretches back nearly 40 years. He currently serves as a senior White House Correspondent for playboy. He also hosts a podcast just ask a question which features conversations about politics Current Events and pop culture. During the term presidency he became a story on occasion or two with confrontational exchanges with administration officials. Among them press secretary Sara Huckabee sanders and white house aide Sebastian Court costs. They tried to suspend brians press pass in 2019 before an Appeals Court panel chided the white house for having violated his due process rights. Read the press provides a history the dramatic change in media and with tales of his own experience. He describes the disappearance of news organizations the spread of bias in news reporting and the tensions between the government and the state and offers at the end some ideas for reviving a vibrant and free press in this co
That may have been out history would have recorded it but for the recording of two men about to hit the state. Former publisher of the Washington Post phil gramm once said journalism is the first rough draft of history. Bob woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote their first draft of the story and their second and under the guidance of legendary editor brett ben bradley who sadly is not with us today the support of publisher Katharine Graham whose son don is with us exposed a tale of corruption at the highest levels of government. Some quality of their work changed journalism politics. Recognition from around the world and led the Washington Post to be honored with a Pulitzer Prize or Public Service but the significance of their work extends beyond committee accolades. Through their relentless painstaking efforts to bring the truth about the Nixon Administration to life bob and carl epitomized the Founding Fathers vision ofthe free press. There could be no such thing as selfgovernance the fo