The three and several democratic mayors responded at it press conference. Here is a look. All right, you guys. All right, everybody. All right, mayors. Mayors of america, welcome and thank you so much for joining us for our winter meeting. I want to welcome and thank tom benjaminmayor steve who is our first vice president. Fellow mayors from across america, representing 85 of the americans who live in the spectacular country. We are thrilled to be here. This week we are here to learn from each other, share best practices, and also to help the folks in washington understand cities, and present ourselves as a willing constructive and able partner in governing the United States of america. We are here to engage and to lead. This week we are going to, and have met from members of both parties, is missed leaders, community and civil rights leaders. We finished a great meeting with the business community. Having the hard conversations about what it takes to solve problems that washington unf
Dc for the u. S. Conference of birs by annual meeting annual meeting. It started with an address from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. Mayor landrieu chatter] good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon and welcome to the conference of mayors. I am at mitch landrieu, the mayor of the great city of new orleans, president of the conference of mayors. Thank you. [applause] we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver wants us 161st that today is the birthday of vancouver. New orleans is going to celebrate her 300 birthday in a couple weeks, so congratulations to us to. [applause] it is my great honor to introduce the confidence leadership. Steve benjamin of columbia, South Carolina is with us. Hillsbarnett of rochester is working on something for me. Executive leader tom cochran, thank you so much. Net mick our cornett. We have elizabeth. You are several former mayors who have served in the Conference Leadership in the audience today. New mayors, can you stand up . We are ver
To disrupt the flow of funds to Illicit Networks around the world, and this is one of those things thats going to stay in place. And all of those entities, iranian or otherwise, that were designated for their support of any terrorist organization are going to stay sanctioned. That includes banks designated for those reasons, one an iranian bank that was related to hezbollah financing. Theyre going to stay sanctioned. Now, the real powerful aspect of this is part of these sanctions that were imposed under the comprehensive iran sanctions accountability and divestment act, the bill passed by congress in 2010, that bill said if you are a foreign bank and you do business one of these people on our list, if you help them transit money to, from iran to lebanon or any other place or even from iran to london for completely peaceful activity, doesnt matter, it can get cut off the from the United States financial system. That is stay anything place, and that is well understood by the iranians. S
We are engaging in the two both Justice Department but also fbi and others to engage in talks constructively for these companies. The Business Models keep changing. This late expertise on have a technically work resides in the private hands. In some of these models one may be we are a business and we are building a platform for people to talk and share ideas into business. Their Business Model is not we want to have that model used by terrorists to get people inside the tiny. Thats not the point of the Business Model. When we talk to these companies now theres an awareness that same platform they used for good is been used to target the people on the platform. Its Good Business to make sure your platform a safe, i would hope come in addition to being good patriotic duty. We are seeing that shared commonality of interest. What you are seeing is increased investment in resources, both Human Resources in order to identify the terrorists on your site or targeting children are those who are
Ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation will gather and focus on infrastructure with government officials at some 100 event