Good afternoon and welcome. I want to thank our cspan viewers and those joining us online for todays discussion here at Hudson Institute. Im the Vice President for Government Relations at hudson. Our mission is to promote u. S. International leadership for secure, free and prosperous future. We develop policy solutions by thinking about the future outside the limitations of conventional thinking. Two highly respected members of congress, representative joe courtney and rob whitman as the latest guests in our bipartisan speaker series, conversations on National Security and u. S. Naval power. With the director of hudsons center for american sea power. Todays discussion is part of an ongoing series weve held here at hudson over the last few years. The series brings together leading National Security experts to engage in constructive dialogue on the future of naval power and its role in our National Security strategy. Representative courtney chairs the House Armed Services subcommittee on
Care about jobs. If youre american and you want to work, were going to put you back to work, businesses. Why should the people out here care about this issue . Starting with you, scott. Thank you, lawrence, and im so happy to be here with you all at cpac. You know, the president has set forth policies that give the people of america inside of the communities an opportunity to start businesses, to build new homes, you know, to be selfsustaining, to be selfgoverned and fulfill the American Dream and really to fulfill their godgiven potential. I have the honor of the white house the opportunity and revitalization council, which works inside the nations Opportunity Zones. Opportunity zones bring stake holders together inside of communities that havent seen investment in decades. Youre talking about elected officials, community leaders, faith leaders, education leaders with developers and entrepreneurs sitting at the same table at the same time having a hard conversation. You know, whats th
Up next remark some congressman joe courtney, democrat from connecticut, and Virginia Republican rob wittman. They talk about defense spending and use ship and some rebuilding efforts. This is just over one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I want to thank our cspan viewers and those who are joining us online for todays discussion at the conference it hit Hudson Institute. Im dan mckivergan, Vice President of Government Relations at hudson. Our mission is about u. S. International leadership in Public Engagement for secure come free and prosperous future. We develop policy solutions by thinking about the future outside the limitations of conventional thinking. We are honored to representative joe courtney and rep rob wittman as the latest guest in in a bipartisan speakr series, conversations a National Security and u. S. Naval power. With seth cropsey is the direct of Hudson Center for american seapower in todays discussion part of an ongoing series we held here at hudson over the last
Yearold i became a member is known as the Sandwich Generation bit i was sandwiched between two generations of my own family from whom i was the primary caregiver. My mom was dying of brain cancer, my daughter who was a newborn. That does not make me unique because theres a lot of people doing that. I was also fighting an Insurance Company that was wrongfully denying my moms chemotherapy. I have commiserated with joe biden about this because the brain tumor that killed my mother is the same one that took beau bidens life. I know that he and barack obama expanded healthcare in this country almost 700,000 michiganders got healthcare. [cheering and applause] if that is not personal enough to many of us here in michigan, i will tell you what else is. When we were on the ropes, when our Auto Industry was struggling, who had our back . Joe. Thats right, barack obama and joe biden paid they came to the rescue when people counted and what people said let it fa fail, they said no, we are in beca
Thank you very much for coming. This report, strategy in indopacific. Thanks to the contributors, it has happened. I appreciate your support in the participation today. We with like to thank japan foundation, center for Global Partnership for their support of this. The opinions in the report belong to the authors. Today after i introduce the report and contributors will talk. Now introduction. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude force the United States to address challenge. Vicepresident mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, very important, and said government approach using political, economic and military tools as well as propaganda to advance its influence and benefit its interest in the United States. Given the United States need to win the competition, cooperation with likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, in world war i, the winning side comprised 32 countri