Hours. And now for us to declare a recess of the committee at any time, and we will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials to the chairman for inclusion into the record. This hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to impede north kr north koreas access to finance. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine draft legislation to impose secondary sanctions on foreign banks whose business supports the north korean regime whether directly or indirectly. By encompassing virtually all of north kr north koreas economic activity, these measures would are represent the toughest financial sanctions yet directed at pyongya pyongyang. This the means going after cole, petroleum, textiles and minerals as well as north korean laborers abroad. In addition, the bill would incentivize greater compliance with the u. N. Sanctions by leveraging the vote at the International Financial institutions where certain countries with the lax e
Upcoming year of action. This is just over 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations]ne. Good morning everyone. E to as good morning. Welcome to the annual Supreme Court preview. I am cara stein, vice policy of program which most of you know is a National Network ofld lawyers, law students, judges and policy makers who believe the law should be enforced to improve peoples lives. Here we are again. After a Supreme Court term that many felt was lackluster despite the much delayed addition of a nice justice to the bench, we are looking at an upcoming term that promises the highstakes we had grown accustomed to in recent years. You need only look at the first two weeks of oral arguments to see what i mean. Of during just those first five days, the court will consider the constitutionality of the president s travel ban, the legitimacy of wisconsins redistricting scheme and whether American Workers can be forced to arbitrate t disputes with employers as opposed to have a day in court. Some may sa
Thank you very much for coming today. I think well get started. Welcome to all the American Enterprise institute. Im andrew biggs. And todays session is titled what can irs data tell us about Retirement Income. I can imagine a bgrade thriller movie that the tag line said what if everything you knew were wrong. This is a slightly modified version. The tag line might be, what if many of the things you know were wrong and what if many of those were about Retirement Incomes . Its not something quite as thrilling but something thats actually very, very important. And i think the fact is that much of what we think we know about Retirement Incomes, the statistics that drive Government Policies regarding Social Security and Retirement Plans may in fact be wrong. We think we know what retirees incomes are, what their poverty rates are, how dependent they are on Social Security benefits and how much they receive from private Retirement Plans. I can pull some of those statistics from my head. The
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. My name is rick jones, vicepresident and director of the program here a the brookings. Its my pleasure to welcome you for todays event hosted by the brookings center. This event is part of expanding with our partnership with the brookings transatlantic initiative. This is a multiyear platform that will spur a range of new activities not only on global issues, but that the transatlantic partners can get together. Were grateful they recognize that the value that brookings brings to this is our in depth high quality and independent research. Were pleased to be able to announce a fellow that will be joining us and add capacity to our team in answering questions in the relationship and as you see in todays discussions those are substantial. Challenges faced in europe are numerous from an upsurge in nationalism and populism to turmoil following the brexit decision and concerns after the financial crisis and gre
Following their departure from the european union. This is 45 minutes. Good morning everybody, we are delighted to have you here. I wonderful way to start a monday. We are lucky to have ambassador today. Iser with us because some any people went to be here and everybody has questions, we will do that with cards. We were to make sure we dont get too many questions. When you have a card or question filled out, we have runners that will come and pick it up for you. We will make sure we get the best of the questions onto the table. I am responsible for everybody here. If something happens, i will ask you to follow my instructions. I will first take care of the ambassador, but i will come back for you, i promise. [laughter] we will follow the exit doors, they go down the street, take two lefthand turns, and go across to the national geographic. I will order ice cream and we will celebrate our survival. Dont worry about it, but follow my instructions if i have to ask you to do something. Int