Celebrate these wonderful awards. In the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around, and probably among the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when were done well take your questions in chat. And well try to wrap up in an hour, following the zoom practice not leaving you in front of your computer screen for to long especially this time of day. As we get started, for those who may be knew to the awards and to the legacy that they honor, we have a short video about J Anthony Luka ss prizes. People talk but book writing, they almost always talk but the process of writing. Sitting there by the keyboard, and writing it dont and it is in many resp
It was some of the regulation that inhibited the development of real Capital Markets. That is in the interest of the european people, wider Capital Market system. Regulators work with governments, whoever, to say lets develop a regulatory system that is the best, not just more. Dont look at changing something is always being a negative. It could be a Huge Positive for the public good. James, let me give you a different twist. Policy donetary we have the right regulatory structure in place to ensure that is something pops, it will not have the kind of affects it had in the past . You always have a risk of bubbles. Fear and greed, the bull in a bear instinct. You are always providing opportunity for a bubble at some point. Based upon what we see certainly in the banking or, its very low. Just on the regulation point, we have been living with this from crisis times. What the regulators did was absolutely necessary and the right thing to do. Banks were over levered, operating with anywhere
Are all follows at the kennan institu institute, so we wanted to get them all together. Alan cull son, the moscow correspondent for the wall street journal for a decade and a half, sergei, who has a show and elena, a special investigative correspondent. So its a really, really good group of journalists. I encourage you to join us on thursday mortganing. Let me start todays event, russias war against terror. Elena had just published this book. The evolution of terrorism in russias north caucuses and we have copies for sale up front and she will inscribe it for you and write a comprehensive plan for dealing with terrorism on the front cover. Im kidding. Thats chapt ir 3. So, elena is associate professor of International Security studies in the college of International Security affairs at the National Defense university. Thats a Government Security Oriented University in case that didnt make it clear. Her publications including this latest book have appeared foreign wide including in jour
Electio elections. Later treasury secretary jack lou on the upcoming debt ceiling debate. Every five years, the departments of agriculture and health and Human Services issue dietary guidelines and nutritional information to the public. Next the House Agriculture Committee hears from tom vilsack and Silvia Burwell about the process. This is two and a half hours. Good morning. Lets go ahead and get started. Trent, will you open us with a prayer please . Dear heavenly father, we ask that you bless this committee. We ask that you bless this government. We ask that you bless all those who lead this nation. Amen. This Meeting Committee of agriculture regarding the development of the 2015 dietary guidelines for american will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for being here this morning. It is no small feat to get two of the secretaries of two of the most important agencies in government to sit at the same table at the same time, so i thank you secretary vilsack, secretary burwell,
Your bill is highly threatening to people who have psychiatric diagnosis. That there are more controls being put in place and more Civil Liberties who did you hear that from . Several people. Who . What organization. On our own. So what happens is organizations who get funding from sampson. Sampson didnt say anything. They do. They fund a lot of these organizations. They make sure you speak out because you take away the funding. Were not taking away funding. We are protecting peoples rights to be well. Let me finish. Okay. People have the right to get better. There is nothing in our bill that takes away rights. One organization told the audience says if a Police Officer stops you for traffic activity they can force you to take medication. That is not true. They are creating a whole cloud of lies. We want more providers. We want more places for treatment. We want grants. We want innovation grants, demonstration grants. We dont money to be bought up in washington. We want more efficiency