Government do things with respect to security, peace process, sinai, and other issues of national consequence to us. On the middle east peace saudi arabia has been a critical partner. Just yesterday we reaffirmed the saudi commitment, the saudi commitment to its own initiative a very Significant Initiative and i praised prince sauds description of the, of his vision and the saudi vision for the peace that waits for israel providing we can move the process which they are committed to and very much a part of that we can move that forward. They are a partner in that effort through their role in the arab league as well as their authorship of the arab peace initiative. In addition we both share, saudi arabia and the United States share with almost every other country in the region deep concern about Irans Nuclear program. And its impact on the region. And we had a very frank conversation yesterday about that and i think they understand exactly what the United States is engaged in and i reaf
Me. Appreciate it. Captioning performed by vitac we have some more thank yous. I want to thank our planner, Ivan Goldberg who made all this happen, also the great allison jafy of the great d. C. Improv. Those of you who heard the reception band, thats is madam organs band. You may have noticed on your tables mip cards. Those cards get you free into adams morgan. I want to thank cnn, my capitol hill colleagues who dealt with me dealing with this dinner and who could not be better friends and colleagues. Im so honored to work with you. Its such a privilege. Thank you to my friends, megan, megan and kristen and to my husband jason, you make everything better. Now to all of you, i have probably the deepest thanks, it has been an incredible honor. I would never have imagined reporting at the capital much less standing here with some of the greatest reporters in the world and we will continue fighting for access at the u. S. Capitol because we sure could use it. Finally, thank you of course
Its a very, very important. That again, i just thank you and the committee and all the panelists for engaging this topic which is critical, not only to the future and your children and to our country, and make no mistake, the decision to reauthorize will have a definite impact on our schools, our hospitals, our economy, our military and our homes. And most importantly our kids. I thank you for this time. Thank you very much. Dr. Cook . Thank you very much for the question. I find it a persistent question we get a lot as i can presentation but sometimes its whats the one thing i would do if i could do something would be to get everyone to realize there is not one thing you can do. Everything is part of the problem. Each one of the strategies and proposals represents 1 of the solution. It cant be left off. Its not the magic bullet. So we need to include all of it. We need to think global and act local because thats were i find like a lot of change occurs, it occurs at the Grassroots Leve
Stronger growth Going Forward in q3, and hopefully ongoing. However, you will have noted the have revised down our forecast for Growth Trends in the United States to 2 . We are facing this aging population issue. We are facing this relatively low collectivity issues, which is why we are recommending various longterm policy reforms to address aging and productivity. But it tells us another thing, weather that extreme occurrences have a serious effect on the economy, and extreme weather occurrences have frequently inmore the last 20 years than they had in the previous century. I think that is a valid reason to wonder about Climate Change and how to deal with it. Incidentally, one of the recommendations that we put in this report deals with tax. Thank you very much, madam labagarde. You can see offer comments tonight at 9 30 on cspan. The Russian Energy company gas prom stopped furnishing gas to ukraine today. A spokesman for the company said are only forkraine the amount that has been pa
As you would expect me to say so, we dont intervene between corporate entities. Both they are commercial entities that entertain commercial relationship. See certainly hope for the stability of that part of the world and for the stability of supply, that the situation can be addressed promptly and satisfactorily between the commercial entities and the negotiation. Strong hope thank you. This is the last question. Josh, Associated Press. Madam director, in the downward revision for growth in 2014, it looks like weather played a big role. What does that take oh tell tell us about the stability of the economy given that impact . I think it says two things. One is, we believe that this q1 result was a temporary occurrence. With temporary outcomes that will be mitigated by stronger growth Going Forward in q2q3 and hopefully ongoing. However you would have noted, we have revise down our forecast for Growth Trends in the United States to two percent. We are facing this aging population issue.