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this event was hosted by the heritage foundation. mr. miller: good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. my name is terry miller. i am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform here at the heritage foundation. i would ask for you please, those in the audience, to make the last check of your cell phones to make sure they won t interrupt the proceedings today. we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called big government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country, and we have a lot of government activities that affect poor members of our population in one way or the other. welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another, that add up to well over a trillion dollars these days. that can be things like health ofe, direct income support one kind or another. we are not here to talk about ....
mr. miller: good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. my name is terry miller. i am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform here at the heritage foundation. i would ask for you please, those in the audience, to make the last check of your cell phones to make sure they won t interrupt the proceedings today. we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called big government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country, and we have a lot of government activities that affect poor members of our population in one way or the other. welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another, that add up to well over a trillion dollars these days. that can be things like health ofe, direct income support one kind or another. we are not here to talk about those policies today. we want to talk about anothe ....
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone, good afternoon. my neighboring is michael, resident fellow of american enterprise institute and it s my pleasure today to welcome to aei profess or cass sunstein. he was the administrator of the office information of regulatory affairs, commonly known as oir from obama administration. he s written a dozen books and herest he s here to talk about his latest books which is called #republic. i think that a reader would not have pronounced the word that way 20 years ago but it s an important and interesting book so please welcome cass sunstein to aei. okay. well, it s a thrill to be out here and you all do amazing work and i ve learned so much from what s produced here on legal and regulatory matters and i really thank you on behalf of zillions of people. i was blessed or cursed for the last several years to live in the waldorf towers, which is pretty heavy stuff from a boy from massachusetts and i lived there because ....
of the federal aviation administration and the president s proposal to privatize the air traffic control system. this is just over two hours. morning. i want to welcome secretary chao back today. this is her first time beforee the committee since being confirmed. secretary, i want to thank you for appearing before us today to discuss reauthorization of thehe faa. we arend working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill, hopefully during this work period. and we appreciateld the administration s engagement. already this year, the committee has held hearings on a range of topics underpinning this legislative effort including safety, drone policy, rural issuing, aircraft certification, consumers concerns, and infrastructure financing. one of the key governance issues we have not yet focused on this yearld but which has been discussed extensively overall the last two years and whether the united states should separatete the air traffic serve provider function from the ....
web actors, increasingly important, but we don t have strategies for how to bring them together. watch after words , sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span to the tv. transportation secretary elaine chao testified before the senate and transportation committee on the proposal to privatize the air traffic control system. [inaudible conversations] good morning. i want to welcome secretary child back today. this is her first time before the committee since being confirmed. madam secretary, i want tong thank you for appearing to discuss reauthorization.r we are working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill. hopefully during this work. we appreciate the engagement. the committee has held hearings on a range of topics underpinning this effort including safety, drone policy, role issues, aircraft concerns and infrastructure financing. one of the key issues we have not yet focused on this year but that has been discussed atet pensively occurs in other parts of the ....