[background noises] [background noises] good afternoon everyone. I am jolt present of the publicc Diplomacy Council of america. It is my privilege on behalf George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy y and Global Communication the university of Southern California center on communication leadership and policy, i did that without breathing. And the pdc aid to welcome you to the first monday of septembe. Nevermind this is the second monday. It always is in september. Today is september 11, 911. Many of us in this room will always remember with clarity where we were and what we were doing on that day 22 years ago and the struggle to reach out to our loved ones. We will move on with our agenda today. We do so holding in our hearts the spirit of the almost 3000 who perished during that disaster and the many more whom we have lost post 9112 elements derived from heroic rescue x and conflicts. Todays tech host is tom gabby, where are you . In the back. Mike right here in the
Ongoing challenge. For discussion from George Washington university. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] good afternoon everyone. I am jolt present of the publicc Diplomacy Council of america. It is my privilege on behalf George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy y and Global Communication the university of Southern California center on communication leadership and policy, i did that without breathing. And the pdc aid to welcome you to the first monday of septembe. Nevermind this is the second monday. It always is in september. Today is september 11, 911. Many of us in this room will always remember with clarity where we were and what we were doing on that day 22 years ago and the struggle to reach out to our loved ones. We will move on with our agenda today. We do so holding in our hearts the spirit of the almost 3000 who perished during that disaster and the many more whom we have lost post 9112 elements derived from heroic rescue x and confl
Talked about strengthening kplu community resilience. This took place in Southern California. Its about an hour 20 minutes. Good afternoon. And welcome to the first monday, actually the first monday working in january. This is it a partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California center for communication leadership and policy. And also president of the Public Diplomacy counsel. Those are two of the partners in these monthly events. The third is the Public Diplomacy alumni situation and plea pleased to have that president here. Its my pleasure to welcome you. And highlight three events. Office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume on the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963, which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. They are going to be releasing it at decor house, 20 at the door, but you do hav
Senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well a introduce the witnesses. After the witnesses testimony senators will each have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think what well do is continue right on through until about 10 45. And then well alternate going back and forth to vote. I think well have time for all of us to hear the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. Today were holding a hearing which is the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs and response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators collins, baldwin, murkowski, whitehouse, cap tow, sanders, enzi and warren as well as other senators interested in the subject. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both this hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator mu
The committee on health, education, pensions and labor will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have a statement and we will introduce witnesses. After the testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think we will continue right 10 45. Until 10 4 and then we will alternate going back to vote. I think we will have time for all the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. We are holding the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs in response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators sanders,white house, and warren, as well as other senators who are interested in this object. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both his hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator murray and i agreed on the witnesses. Despite this, our first hearing in june went so far off track that i delayed this hearing , inst