Electronics from Wayne County Community colleges. Host what you make of the president s proposal . Caller i think it is excellent. I cannot understand people who are calling and saying that if i paid 10 years ago or five years ago, what do i get . And can i get my money back echo i am glad that what i paid what i paid when i paid. I came from a large family. And all working people, worked hard all her life. And i couldnt really afford college. All the timeouts going to Community College, i got some grants, but alice had to work while i was going. You still have to have food and transportation and a place to live. While you are going to Community College. From what i got out of that committee college and what people will get out of that Community College, if it is free i have paid a lot of taxes. I contributed a lot of taxes to this society because of that associates degree, and because of the help that i got from the Community College that people theyre coming you had smaller classrooms. I had a lot more personal help that i needed from professors and certain programs they had at the schools that did tutoring and like that. It was just a plus plus, winwin. And another thing that is so important is that when i got into the Community College there was a lot of people who were borderline in and out of school, you know, coming out of high school. I was a person that didnt do that great in high school, but i knew i needed a great education. When i got to the college, the atmosphere that was there, the glow that was on peoples faces the glow on the professors faces just push me forward. I ended up almost with a 4. 0. I could have gone to harvard if i wanted to come after going to Community College. Guest chuck, thank you so much for your comments. Im very familiar with Wayne County Community college in detroit. They do an exceptional job up there. The one thing i would remind our listeners of his that we live in a Global Society today. And many of the ways many of the jobs are going to be comedic computed for globally. When they come to a point talk about job opportunities, we are going not just going to be competing in detroit in kentucky, we are going to be competing with people from around the world so we will need a better trained workforce and in my opinion, that is what this proposal does. Host Walter Bumphus is the president and ceo of American Association of Community Colleges. We would love to talk to more down the road. Caller john guest john, thank you for having me on this one. Guest we now take you live. Have a great thursday. We are live this morning at the new America Foundation here in washington, d. C. And we are waiting remarks from health and Human Services secretary sylvia burwell. She will be speaking about Health Care Policy at this event. Set to begin in just a couple minutes. And we will have live coverage here on cspan when she starts. On capitol hill both chambers are off today and the rest of the week for the annual party retreats. Democrats are in baltimore and they are expected to meet with the president this afternoon in a closed door meeting. Although there are no live remarks currently scheduled, one of the items that could be discussed is the lifting of travel and trade rules that are set to take effect on cuba tomorrow. Again no live remarks planned, if there is reaction available, well bring it to you on the cspan networks. Also White House Press secretary josh earnest will likely touch on that topic of cuba trade and a number of other items when addresses reporters this afternoon starting at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Cspan2 will carry that live this afternoon, again starting at 1 00 p. M. House and Senate Republicans are gathering today in her can shey, pennsylvania, for the first of their twoday retreat. They are scheduled with meetings throughout the day. They plan to hold several press conferences. Theyll be speaking with reporters. One of those scheduled for about 11 45 eastern today with the chairs of the house and Senate Republican conferences. Representatives Kathy Mcmorris rodgers of washington and senator john thune of south dakota. Well have it live here on cspan at 11 45 eastern. We also plan to bring you live remarks from House Speaker john boehner along with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. That starts at 2 30 eastern. Again that will be here on cspan. In between those press conferences well take you live to the National Press club here in washington. Well have remarks from the new chair of the National Endowment for the humanities will be speaking at the press Club Luncheon for plans on the future celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. That will be live starting at 1 00 p. M. Eastern, again from the National Press club here on cspan. Also later this afternan, well switch gears up a bit and bring you a discussion on cybersecurity and ways to prevent future attacks in the wake of the Sony Pictures cyberattack. It will include mike rogers and former head of the n. S. A. And c. I. A. Michael haden. It will be live at 3 30 eastern here on cspan. One more thing, looking down the road the president s state of the union speech takes place next week. Cspan will have live coverage tuesday night, january 20, starts at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. The speech begins at 9 00. Theyll also take your calls and comments via facebook and twitter. It again, we are live here at the new America Foundation awaiting remarks from health and Human Services secretary sylvia burwell. Shell speak about health carepolicy. It is hosted by the new America Foundation. Live coverage when it starts here on cspan. We understand it will still be a few moments before secretary burwell arrives. Well have live coverage of all her remarks when she gets here and well have it for you here on cspan. A conversation on the Obama Administrations cybersecurity proposals from todays washington journal. Executive document that he put out. We are still talking about information sharing. The president put good focus on it, looking to congress to say listen, you give us the tools to do information sharing and we can help get a better handle on this eshoo. Host so what are the tools that we are talking about . What are the tools he wants in place . Guest well, i think the biggest thing is legislation. Theres been a piece of legislation put forth by Dutch Ruppersberger and former congressman mike rogers that initially when they put it out, and i was on a trip and i got a call from dutchs office saying, listen, we are putting forward this bill. Its effectively giving the Intelligence Community and the department of defense the opportunity to lead this effort. And we explained to them very, very specifically that this is not going to cut it. This is something that they could should be a part of it, but this is a Homeland Security issue. So that particular piece of legislation by the way, this was about 2010, 2011 time frame, has languished. Theres been a lot of input from privacy advocates. Theres been a lot of input from security experts. Theres been a lot of issues in the political side, both sides of lobbyists and we still cant seem to get it out. Senate at the time said they are not going to pick it up. So it just sort of royaled roiled around the house for a while f we get that through, we get it finalized to give some Liability Protection to the companies. We give some direct capability of not classifying everything under the sun. Private sector will have better capabilities to see whats coming and hopefully protect themselves. Host whats the biggest obstacle this happening in this congress . Guest well, i think the issue is the Liability Protection. As you look through the language of the proposed legislation, it talks about protection where information sharing, data breach, for example that the liability has been lifted because of the fact that we need the security more so than the Liability Protection. Some groups feel that will give private industry particularly large corporations, free rein to start conducting misconduct that we used to deal with a long time ago. I think thats going to be a big debate. But theres two sides to this. When you start looking at the need we have as businesses to be successful, to continue to create jobs, we really need the backing of congress to say, listen, we want to share it, but we want protection in doing so, otherwise particularly our corporate lawyers are going to back off and say we may release a little bit, but we are not going to give you a whole lot of information. Host president obama has been talking about this week in his push for new cybersecurity legislation. Heres a bit from his event his appearance at the federal trade commission this week. We are introducing new legislation to create a single Strong National standard so americans know when their information has been stolen or misused. Right now almost every state has a different law on this. Its confusing for consumers and its confusing for companies. And its costly, too, to have to comply to this patchwork of laws. Sometimes folks dont even find out the credit card information has been stolen until they see charges on their bill and then its too late. So under the new standard we are proposing, companies would have to notify consumers of a breach within 30 days. In addition, we are proposing to close loopholes in the law so we can go after more criminals who steal and sell the identities of americans, even when they do it overseas. Host this notification effort, this would be different from the information sharing legislation that you have been talking about, correct . Guest right. That is correct. Once again the data breach notification is something we have been going since 2001. Basically where we are at, we have somewhere around 46, maybe including district of columbia, 47 states if you would before i introduce secretary burwell, who is here to make some remarks about the future of health care on a number of dimensions in the new congress, in the year ahead, i just want to make a few quick comments about new america and why we are so honored that we are able to host her here today for these remarks. Among the founding principles of new america, which is reflected in the book, the radical center by ted and michael, who are among the founders of this organization 15 years ago, was a commitment to get beyond traditional partisan alignment and specifically to apply that idea to health care, to treat it as a matter of both rights and responsibilities, and something that should be vested in in individuals and people not just some jobs and not others. And to improve care and not just coverage. Over the following years, the middle of the last decade, new Americas Health program, which was led by lorie, lynn, and shannon worked to put that vision into place particularly in the period 2006, 2008 this organization and Lynn Nicholls created a space for bipartisan and most importantly cross ideological conversation that ultimately it was wonderful to see it happen, ultimately resulted in legislation that by 2008 had 10 cosponsors from each party. And a piece of legislation that in some ways went further that the Affordable Care act. But not in others. In my work on political reform, one of the things that we have done is try to look at the kind of situations where government can get things done, even in the situation where people have deep disagreements about values. And in doing that, i still look at that, the work new america did even 10 years ago as a fascinating example because it reaffirmed for me a very basic truth. When people share a commitment to getting something done, when they agree that the status quo isnt good enough, and they are willing to talk to each other then even if there are very deep differences about what to do and how to do it, but if people are willing to talk to each other, anythings possible. And people can find Solutions Even without giving up their core beliefs. I think secretary burwell will tell us we are on the verge of an era where well have that conversation again. Im also looking forward to hearing secretary burwells thoughts about innovation and how the government can do better. Last week two longstanding Board Members of new america published a wonderful article highlighting some of the ways in which the Affordable Care act was encouraging innovation, reducing costs and improving care. They concluded the article, 25 years from now we hope historians look back on the Affordable Care act as the start of a new era of publicprivate collaboration to develop Innovative Solutions to complex social problems. And thus to restore trust in government itself. We share that confidence. Now, i want to introduce secretary burwell when our staff said you need secretary burwells biography, i really know her biography because, when i was in government she was a hot shot in government. When i worked in philanthropy later, she was a hot shot there. Ill do the full bio anyway. She was born in sworn in in june as the 22nd secretary of health and Human Services, a smaller club than i would have thought. Before that she served as director of the office of management and budget where she worked closely with congress to restore order to the budget and appropriations proses. Before coming processes. Before coming back to the government and joining this administration, she was president of the Walmart Foundation in arkansas during a period when that foundation surpassed 1 billion in total giving. For 10 years before that, she was president of the Global Development program at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation in seattle, washington. An extremely large foundation. And works on a huge range of issues from vaccinations, Childrens Health agricultural development, and she was the first chief operating officer. During the Clinton Administration she served as Deputy Director of o. M. B. , chief of staff to the secretary of the treasury, and staff director of the National Economic council. She was born and raised in West Virginia. Received her degree from harvard and degree from oxford. We are pleased to have her here. Let me do a quick logistical thing. After remarks well have questions and answers. You have cards for questions. Please put your question on it and your name. Well go through it and ill call on people and youll say your question but we want to do it efficiently with the cards first. With all that, secretary burwell, we are pleased to have you. Thank you very much mark. Appreciate it. And its great to be here at the new America Foundation. Mark twain once said that you cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. And i think the great thing about the new America Foundation is that you work to refocus our collective imagineation on the things that we imagination on the things we can do together to renew american prosperity. Thats a very important thing and why i think this is the ideal place for me to be to reflect upon the values and interests and priorities that we have in common as americans and in the broader sense as citizens of a shrinking planet. I have long believed that across the globe regardless of your nationality or your financial status, that we all basically have the same desires for our children. And that is, we want them to live healthy and productive lives. And as the mother of a 7 and 5yearold i share that dream as well. Im a believer in the notion that people who share common interests and Common Dreams ought to be able to find Common Ground. And thats what i want to talk with you about today. I truly believe that there are a number of things where we have an opportunity and in fact a responsibility to get done together in this new year. Working acrossle aisle and working across different sectors. This is especially true in health care. Where our system is on the threshold of both positive and i believe transformational change. There are also opportunities that flow from the innovations in science and medicine that are being advanced by american scientists. Researchers and entrepreneurs. Many of these innovations are redefining the boundaries of progress. At the same time, they are opening the promise of a new inknow vation innovation, economy. The opportunities before us are good for families, they are good for business, they are good for the economy, they are good for tax