Im greg mathis, policy advisor to senator mark warner. Thank you for joining us for the Cyber Security caucus. As many of you know senator warner along with senator gardner started the Bipartisan Task force. And so hell be here to give a presentation to talk about this important topic as well as we have the ceo of dhi. Without further ado i let the first presentation get started. I very rarely give talks that are standing room only so really appreciate your interest today. As greg mentioned im robert lord, cofounder, president and chief Strategy Officer of protenus, and also a fellow at new america cybersecurity policy program. While a lot of information today im presenting comes from research weve done at protenus and some of the work we are currently building at new america on the speaking on behalf of either of those organizations today. Just talking from my experience and providing perspective on the challenges that we see in this space i guess to contextualize this because sometim
Humanitarian crisis at home, international involvement, and the effort to restore democracy. This is an hour. Thank you to the press club. It is an honor for me to be here to discuss the venezuelan crisis and have a q and a session with all of you. Before going forward, i would like to give you details on how i got here. Born in venezuela but in a small town, far away from the capital. A small village and i had the opportunity to go to a Public School in venezuela. I went to caracas because they didnt have a university in my small town. And had anolarship opportunity to come to the states. At 14, i was demonstrating on the streets, proclaiming venezuelan rights and in a certain way, warning to the venezuelans and the International Community that we were facing a dictatorship and in 2014, the regime decided to issue an order of arrest against me. Only for defending venezuelan rights. After that, i spend more than 100 days in hiding inside of venezuela. They were trying to capture me. Vi
Appellate attorney erin murphy at an event hosted by Dartmouth College in hanover, New Hampshire. This is about two hours. [applause] let me now introduce our speakers and our moderator. Joseph blocher is a professor at Duke University school of law. As a professor at Duke University school of law. Baned his phd be degree from rice university, a masters from cambridge and a jd from yell. Yale. Joe stepped the breathing for the Landmark Supreme Court versus halloran 2008. The district of columbia firearms control regulation act of 1975 required other things that all firearms be kept quote unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock. It also restricted residents from owning handguns except those registered prior to the enactment of the law. In a five to four decision, the Supreme Court said that the Second Amendment protects an individuals right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia. And to use that arm for traditionally normal purposes such as selfdefense w
Ambassador Vardhan Shringla here to give remarks today. I am going to start with a few housekeeping items to introduce the ambassador, 1520 minutes and then move to a moderated discussion including getting q a from the audience. We would like to leave some time to make this interactive discussion. We do have some heritage products in the us relationship. This has been a big priority for the Heritage Foundation, for myself, for the Us Government and released navigating differences and consolidated which look at the reelection reviewed some of the progress, some of the remarkable progress made in the first term and what we can expect in terms of opportunities and also challenges. Here at heritage we will be organizing a big conference on india us relations, partnership with the Research Foundation and independent think tank and stay tuned, several members of congress under parliament from india, expecting a big impact for that conference. And also, india us israel trilateral Strategic Di
Extend it to the entire population. The idea of medicare for all is the government would pay all the Nations Health bills and everybody would have coverage. A public option would create a government type program like medicare, like medicaid and make it more available. Now you have to meet certain qualifications to get into any of the government provided health programs. The public option would make it easy for people to get into paid health care. Host for the democrats were debate on these issues why are they so fervently advocating . Whats wrong with the Current System to them . Guest everybody agrees, republicans do, the Current System is not working. People are paying too much. Most people have insurance but a substantial number of people still do not. A lot of people who do have insurance literally cant afford to use their interest because they have multithousand dollars deductibles. Everybody agrees we need to fix whats broken at how you do that. Democrats generally agree that eve