Cases currently addressing the issues. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [ applause ] so ladies and gentlemen, lets get to the heart of the matter. Are you ready . Over the last ten years, the right to vote African Americans who have been under pernicious, intentional, deliberate, orchestrated and clever. Theres been no period since the 1965 Voting Rights act has passed that these efforts have been so sustained. I like to think the attack is coming from three main fronts or what i like to call the terrible trio. The first member of the trio is the United States Supreme Court. Which in 2013, the year of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington in a poorly in an inexplicable decision that i predict will go down like dread and plessy as low moments in the history of american jurisprudence. Nokt out an important provision of the Voting Rights act. That provision required Southern States to gain Justice Department approval before they change their voting laws. What has happened since t
Showing up and fighting every single day. Each of you is doing something exthe reco extraordinary. Youre saving lives, so thank you. The Prolife Movement is a noble cause. Its also a thankless cause. Thats because the people you are fighting for arent in a position to thank you. They are the voiceless ones. We are their voice. Theres little recognition in this struggle and little glory. In fact, the opposite is typically true. Many, if not all of you, have endured more than your fair share of name calling and abuse, especially in this town. There is an old saying which has been repurposed countless times. It goes Something Like this whoever destroys a single life has destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a single life has saved the whole world. Think about the magnitude of that for a moment. Every new life has limitless potential. Each baby saved could grow up to be a doctor, a teacher, a first responder, even a public official. When you save one life, you set an entire universe
Thank you also to the folks from cspan who are watching and the folks that are streaming this live over the Atlantic Councils website. My name is william wechsler. I read the Atlantic Councils work in the middle east. Im the director for the center that is your host this afternoon. This question was a question that would not really have been asked only a decade ago. China does not have deep historical ties in the region. China has its economic connections were modest not that long ago. But now its a question that many people in the region are asking more and more. Many people in the u. S. Economic, diplomatic, intelligence and military apparatus are asking more and more. Many people in china are asking more and more about how they approach this region as part of their wider belt and Road Initiative, as part of their wider diplomatic initiatives, as part of their need for Energy Resources. What we see right now is the economic relationship between china and the middle east is deep and d
But about 40,000 veterans are still homeless on any given night. Thank you, thank you, pete, and thank you all. Thank you all on behalf of your department of Veterans Affairs, but more importantly thank you on behalf of thousands and thousands of warriors and their families. Im going to take a bit of a pause here and recognize a friend in the audience. Pete was very kind to talk about my background but theres someone out there, colonel United States marine corps, and that is a title that never expires. I made the mistake of telling secretary of state George Schultz during the next introduction that he was an exmarine. [ laughter ] the side of my head was caved in with more ferocity than any of the jesuits did when i was growing up. But tom bowman is here, the former deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs. Someone who has spent a life not only in uniform, but also serving americas most deserving. So good to see you, sir. [ applause ] now leo shane from military times is here. Hes got an h
Now, i know that the end of the last panel, or the first panel, they got a little bit into credit risk, so they tried to take our territory, and this one should be better, so everyone should understand that. I just, maybe ill introduce the panelists first. It is going from my last, to the far left, mike calhoun first, the president for the center for responsible lending, and then dana ganford now the ceo of the Global Mortgage Group at rg capital. And lori goodman is next, here at the urnen institute, she is the Vice President for Housing Finance policy and then last is David Finkelstein who is the chief Investment Officer for analy capital management. And i think we start with lori who has a couple of slides, and will take us through some of the data on history and development in credit Risk Transfer. Yes, just for a very short time, i think you did such a good job of mentioning, credit Risk Transfer actually started in 2012. And the idea was to reduce the overall risk of fannie and f