I i would briefly walked to the agenda before we invite the speakers onto the stage. First up we have Katherine Brown and jay wang will participate on a paper which is published online today called Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017. Building alliances, fighting extremism and dispelling this information. Katherine is council of Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow and a visiting fellow with my program here at csis and weve been fortunate to have her for a couple of months leading to his work on Public Diplomacy. She most recently served as executive director of the u. S. Advisory commission on Public Diplomacy. Jay wang is an associate professor at the Usc Annenberg school for communication and journalism, and director of the usc center on Public Diplomacy. The paper theyre going to present to you today emerged from the workshop that we held jointly with jason center back in november. Essentially what it does is indexed and assessment of where weve been with Publi
House speaker ryan held a briefing with reporters earlier today. He was joined by other Republican Leaders as they expressed their support for President Trumps executive order on refugees and immigrants and then discussed g. O. P. Efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Its 15 minutes. Mr. Ryan good morning, everybody. This week in the house, were making important progress on two fronts. First, our committees are set to begin holding legislative hearings on bills to deliver relief for americans struggling under obamacare. This is the next step in a step by step approach to repealing and replacing obamacare with affordable, patientcentered system. We know that this law is collapsing. We hear it from every we hear it every day from our constituents. We hear it from the families who tell us deductibles are so high it doesnt feel like they have insurance. We hear it from people who have been denied choices. We need to step in and restore real choices and real competition so we c
Dedication with which it carries out its responsibility to congress under the budget act but the contents of this report are concerning. After eight years of failed fiscal policies and wasteful and unactable spending america is faced with a mammoth debt of 20 trillion and a sluggish economy thats holding it back. This year alone overspending is projected to be 559 billion and will continue to grow over the next ten years to 1,408 million, 1. 4 trillion in 2027. Its a 9,426 billion budget hole over the ten years. Gross National Debt will hit 30 trillion in ten years outpacing our projected Economic Growth. As Congress Considers our countrys budget over the next decade we must look beyond the annual appropriations process. Almost 70 of federal spending is already on auto pilot and that portion is growing rapidly. Cbo reports states that 70 of the total increase over the next ten years is from Social Security, medicare and net interest on americas debt. Social security taxes will stop pay
Dedication with which it carries out its responsibility to congress under the budget act but the contents of this report are concerning. After eight years of failed fiscal policies and wasteful and unactable spending america is faced with a mammoth debt of 20 trillion and a sluggish economy thats holding it back. This year alone overspending is projected to be 559 billion and will continue to grow over the next ten years to 1,408 million, 1. 4 trillion in 2027. Its a 9,426 billion budget hole over the ten years. Gross National Debt will hit 30 trillion in ten years outpacing our projected Economic Growth. As Congress Considers our countrys budget over the next decade we must look beyond the annual appropriations process. Almost 70 of federal spending is already on auto pilot and that portion is growing rapidly. Cbo reports states that 70 of the total increase over the next ten years is from Social Security, medicare and net interest on americas debt. Social security taxes will stop pay
[ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] [ applause ] all right thank you. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] as speaker of the house delegates and president of the joint assembly, its my pleasure to present to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth, the honorable terrence r. Mcauliffe. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Speaker, leader norman, ladies and gentlemen of the virginia General Assembly, thank you for invoiting me to speak with you this evening. And to the people of virginia, who are with us tonight or who are watching from home, thank you for the honor of serving as this commonwealths 72nd governor. [ cheers and applause ] we are joined here this evening by our great lieutenant governor, ralph northam. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] and our great attorney general, mark herring. [ cheers and applause ] these two virginia leaders have been great partners as we work to build a stronger, more