Im eric toter, codirector of the tax policy center, its an honor for me to be here honors don lubic one of the my mentors, heroes and an ideal to all of us on the panel, and many of us in the audience we have a great panel here. I will you have their full bios, i will introduce them briefly. Manuel koran is kpmg. She was previously a Deputy Assistant secretary for International Tax at the u. S. Treasury department, and during the Obama Administration and has done many other things before them. I wont go through them all. David rosenbloom is a visiting professor of tax ace and director of the International Tax program at new york universitys school of law. Hes also been a member of the Kaplan Drysdale law firm. And david has many other accomplishments, but the one ill mention is he also was the top International Tax officials at the Treasury Department back in the carter administration. Where he was tax legislative counsel. And finally we have barbara angus, the one member of panel who
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Did you know there are only really five stops powering that index now . Well tell you about that and more. First, lets check in with sarah. Welcome, sarah. Thank you. Its good to see you and be with you as always. We have to begin with that potential deal between walgreens and rite aid. The pharmacy chain stocks all moving right now. This is just talks. Advanced deal talks according to the wall street journal. Supposedly theyre in talks right now. It had a noticeable infect on rite aid. I want to point out here, put up rite aid intraday here. 6. 24. Rite aid at 6. 24 just about 40 minutes or so ago. And we immediately got halted. And you can see the jump up after the halt came off to 8. 51. Whats important is walgreens even moved up on this. Sometimes the alleged acquirer moves down. Thats not the case. You can see that moved up as well. And heres a surprise. Even cvs moved to the upside. You would think this would not be necessarily great news for the competition. Even cvs moved up on
Thanks to the witnesses for testifying today. A few questions still come to mind after all this discussion we have had here. The first one that i have is when i look at the data on students obese or overweight, do we have any evidence which direction their direction has gone . First to ms. Burwell. Any indication on whether this program is reducing the overweightness of our children in school, or whether it might be working against us . So with regard to the specifics, ill refer to my colleague secretary vilsack. I think what we know in younger children we are starting to see overarching across the board. We are starting to see the numbers go in the right direction. With regard to the specifics of school programs, i would defer to the secretary. I would prepared to redirect that question after your response. I will tell you we saw the obesity rate of high school decrease 9 . In the four years after that, the obesity rate increased by 16 . Have you seen any data like that from the cente
The countrys borders as a way to protect u. S. Citizens privacy. So Higher Standards have accompanied the collection of information on citizens on domestic soil under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. The problem is that our communications no longer stay window midwest i can bounds. So in 2008 the government made a strong argument that it didnt make sense any more that if communications outside the United States, if you had a bad guy in london calling a bad guy in paris, traditionally under fisa you dont need to go to the court to get a warrant but now if those same two actors use email and it happens to go through the United States, the government has to go to a court to intercept those communications. A very strong argument for 2008 fisa amendments act. The problem is it works two ways. Now if im sitting in this room and i email jen and it goes internationally, now it can be collected. So data is not territorial and not bound by countries borders in the way traditionally wev