Thank you also to the folks from cspan who are watching and the folks that are streaming this live over the Atlantic Councils website. My name is william wechsler. I read the Atlantic Councils work in the middle east. Im the director for the center that is your host this afternoon. This question was a question that would not really have been asked only a decade ago. China does not have deep historical ties in the region. China has its economic connections were modest not that long ago. But now its a question that many people in the region are asking more and more. Many people in the u. S. Economic, diplomatic, intelligence and military apparatus are asking more and more. Many people in china are asking more and more about how they approach this region as part of their wider belt and Road Initiative, as part of their wider diplomatic initiatives, as part of their need for Energy Resources. What we see right now is the economic relationship between china and the middle east is deep and d
Community for more than 50 years. The truck lot at lafferty chevrolet sounded like pitt row at a nascar event. Workers spent the day replacing 99 tires gashed flat on 29 trucks and mini vans early early saturday morning. This is going to be street road. Thats the first truck that was done and he work his way up and you can see him right there. Reporter security cameras caught vandal racing from truck to truck just after 3 00 a. M. A few minutes in, a remote monitor barked out a warning that police were on the way and he took off. But not before damaging nearly 23,000 worth of tires. What goes through your mind when you watch that video. Not nice thoughts. Truthfully. Its not right. Just why would you do it. Reporter lafferty was one of half a dozen businesses along with a handful of individual Vehicle Owners targeted along a 1 mile stretch of street road. At york road auto glass, 10 vehicles, 40 tires struck. Owner bill primrose says hes not sure hes legally responsible for customer ve
Argument that this is such a compelling interest. Right. But let me try to walk through this carefully, because i do think its important. Theyve identified three. First is grandfathered plans. Weve had a lengthy discussion about that. I dont think you can argue that that exemption undermines the governments compelling interests. They claim that theres an exemption for employers who have fewer than 50 employees, but thats just wrong. In fact, theres no reason to think that virtually anybody in that category of employees of those small employers isnt getting contraceptive coverage as part of their regular health care from regular doctors. Let me explain why that is. There is no exemption from the contraceptive coverage requirement for that group. Proof of it is that several petitioners are in that group of fewer than 50 employees. And theyre asking for the and theyre asking for and theyve raised the rfra claim here, they have to meet the contraceptive coverage so the employees get the co
States electoral votes and the presidency to governor bush. This is about 90 minutes. Great deal ofa pleasure and pride that i work that i welcome Vice President al gore. The first event was a meeting with residents in portsmouth, New Hampshire, to discuss longterm health care issues. [applause] mr. Gore today, im announcing we are submitting to the the reintroduction and extension of the Older Americans act with improvements recommended in that act. It has been a great law. [applause] there washe applause begun by somebody who knows this center is a part of the good things that can come, that have come from the Older Americans act. Among senioractive citizens in carthage, tennessee, and frequently goes to the Senior Citizens center there. My father, who i lost in december, was the author of the first medicare bill to pass the United States senate in 1964 and in 1965, it became the law of the land. Both Social Security and medicare along with the Older Americans act and body our nation
And we paid 21,000 for it and i thought myself, theyre buying a new car every year a nicer car than we have. By the way its a ford. A very nice carment they could have had that. Anyway, that is a lot of money, and when i reflect on this, think about some of the concerns that have been raised. Well what about the small investors . To me, the small investors are the people who are in the greatest need of getting advice that is in their best interests, because they dont have margin for error. And so when i hear that argument, i am i agree with the notion that small investors deserve advice, and we need to get more advice for small investors, but we need to get advice that is in their best interests. Folks who are wealthy and get conflicting at vice, thats unfortunate and wed like to prevent that but the consequences for them are less catastrophic than the family that saved 50,000 and is trying to figure out how to spend it. By the way, that small investor who has 50,000 or 100,000, the va