Industry to share information on Cyber Threats. Before signing, the president talked about why it was important to address the issue now. He also spoke about the governments attachment to keep people safe while attempt to keep people safe while protecting Civil Liberties and privacy. This is 30 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, to introduce the president of the United States please welcome, Stanford University president , john hennessey. [applause] welcome back. Its now my great privilege to intro our nations 44th 44th president , barack obama. President obama came to office just after the Global Financial crisis in 2008. His presidency has been marked by the complexity and challenges of governing at a time when people are more interconnected than ever. Sometimes in ways we dont even realize. And the idea of Community Extends far beyond physical boundaries. So many aspects of our lives have been digitized and technology is central to almost everything we do. But our increasing reliance ha
Exchange. The nasdaq is up eight days in a row, the longest winning streak since july. To the russell 2,000 you see some weakness for the ddw jones, down 18 points, a big reason would be cocacola contributing nine dow points, and positive dow points. Home Builder Sentiment and new York State Manufacturing numbers, both of them were big misses and huge disappointments and the weather has something to do with this so we had those reports and i want to point out we had an awful month of january but there seems no panic in the market and coming off of the best week of the year, no excitement as well on the way back up. Connell we are moments away from president obama expected to announce tighter fuel efficiency standards, holding maryland, part of the pledge in the state of the union address. Dagen is a heavyduty vehicle. Connell now that you mention it, good point. Dagen the column that is there with more on this, this all trickles down to the consumer one way or another any time you incr
The cost costs like in a situatn where i thought you had an immediate deficit increase in the first year here in the last three years or ten years, correct . One of my predecessors said a number of years ago in the context. I would like to use that line here. We think that there are important differences in the effeceffects of the policy beyoe ten year window. Into the analysis on the climate legislation in the discussion over years ago. And in a few other cases we look at the ten year window because those are situations inflated that have markedly different effects to raise the attention of the congress and in those cases the congress is particularly interested in the ten year window, but i do not think that in general the cutting off the tenure changes much if we cut off any other thing in particular. You mentioned immigration and did a dynamic scoring figuring out how the labor what affect. Do you expect within ten years they would be doing the dynamics more and more for taxes and s
The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for pet projects such as new teacher prep pardonness, which are redone ant of existing programs. Families deserve a better way forward. We needed administration to work with congress to advance Lasting Solutions facing schools nationwide. Instead of supporting ourests to strengthen education, the administration is implementing a con via luted scheme that has waivers to waivers that makes the secretarie
The clery act. I can tell you in my 17 plus years in this agency, i have never been more impressed or proud of a role making effort. Work began on our implementation strategy after the passage and from the very beginning we have focused on reaching out to the people who are most affected by Campus Sexual Assault and to top exrts in fie who in may and june of last year the department held public hearings where we heard from students and advocates and institutional officials on a range of campus crime topics including the proper role of Law Enforcement and Campus Sexual Assault investigations and the need to find a balance between transparency and confidentiality. And the fall of 2013 we conducted our sessions with student groups, and Campus Safety advocates, campus Law Enforcement and other stakeholders to develop our understanding of their concerns andrstanding of their concerns and to help directly and to hear directly from them about how the law should be implemented. We built relati