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And online censorship by countries such as china. Richard gere chaired the International Campaign for tibet testifies at the Senate Finance subcommittee hearing. The Senate Committee on finance come subcommittee on International Trade cousins and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually, but i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china ....
Thank you so much. Thank you kindly. Book tv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome to the john f. Kennedy junior forum. My name i am a junior studying government at college and i am a member of the jfk junior Forum Committee at the institute of politics. Before we begin, please note the doors located on both the parkside and the jfk streetside of the form. In the event of them emergency, locked to the exit closest to you and congregate in the jfk parking lot. Please also take a moment to silence her cell phones. You can join the conversation online with the jfk junior forum live and interact with our student run instagram at jfk junior forum for behindthescenes highlights. Please take your seats out and join me in welcoming our guests and director of the center on media, politics and Public Policy, nancy gibbs. [applause] ....
And fibers of the security and National Threat concerns. This subcommittee hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but ive read some history, what was like to build the electric grid a century ago. We couldnt of imagine the technologies we use to power our homes and businesses today. The real challenge was extending power itself in every form of our society and there was a challenge that those providing power make money in the cities in well Populated Areas with business and commercial opportunities, with electric the government made a bas ....
Culture, the idea of seeing the man in front of the tank, many of us have all seen that, at least if your speedy we believe this hearing to go live to discussion from axios on Prescription Drug prices. Well hear from Senate Finance amity church are progressing but first former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and later senator Debbie Stabenow of michigan. This is live coverage on cspan2. And real quick, it could have been to one of our events before, we try to keep things short and sweet, four segments of interviews. We want you leaving here feeling smarter about what we talked about, and this particular is what drug pricing in america which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind i like to welcome our first guest, senator chu ....
Conversation for us. Usually were talking about problems in the streets of taiwan, so this will be, i think, quite a bit more entertaining. And i really myself am excited about it. To celebrate the publication of a new book, the siberian chop siberia job. And were going to learn more about the true story behind it. Now, when a book is embossed with the words based on a true story, the immediate question that every reader has is whats fact and whats fiction. Today, were going to get it from the source. Whats fact and whats fiction. So, john, we were expecting to really know by the time that we leak John Kleinheinz is a person of great importance here at hoover. He is, in fact the chair of the hoover board of overseers and a great supporter of the institution. He graduated from stanford in 1984 with a degree in economics, and john began his career as an investment banker. He worked in tokyo and new york and london and then he moved ....