good morning, everyone. my name is nirra tanden president and ceo of the center for american progress, and i m really honored to be joined by our esteemed commission members for the new report from the inclusive commission a commission convened over a year and a half ago. i m very honored to be joined by our co-chairs, dr. larry summers, former treasury secretary, and ed ball shadow chancellor of the exchequer for the u.k. we convened this commission because we at cap are very focused on the challenges the middle class is facing in the united states, challenges of stagnating wages rising costs. what we recognize these were not just trends that the american public is facing. it s really global trends are faking us and we can learn from other countries. so that is why we ve undertaken this effort. i hope everyone has gotten our report, a very big report. and i m going to now turn it over to larry and ed, and then i will ask questions of our commission members to get their tho
ussr to rush at the beginning. no one knows. there is a lot of love and hate. cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u.s. brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u.s. companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and that s because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. we saw what no one expected with fidel. most people, most of the modeling done in the u.s. government was fidel s speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they don t know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. i would say don t expect raul dies and it s a switch. it s going to be more of a wave. thank you. bill lane. good morning. bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a great program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from the big
on newsmakers republican senator john hoeven of north dakota. william adams, the 10th chair announces a new initiative to enhance the significance of the arts and humanities. the initiative is part of the institution s 50th anniversary celebration. the government institute titian was founded in 1965 with a mission to support research, education, preservation, and programs and humanity. this national press club event is about one hour. tuesday night, president obama delivers his state of the union address. live coverage begins at it :00 p.m. eastern. the gop response, delivered by joni ernst and the reaction for open phones, live on c-span and c-span radio. on c-span2, watch the speech and congressional reaction in the u.s. capital. the state of the union address live on c-span c-span2 c-span radio, and c-span.org. william adams the 10th chair of the national endowment for the humanities announces a new initiative to enhance the significance of the arts and humanities.
the category of things where i think there will be bipartisan support. i think those are very clearly legislative issues that the congress will take the lead in terms of the timetable and focus they will do. not mentioned because i thought that they were very contentious. as her matter of fact as a matter of fact, on the ledger of putting things in columns of more contentious or greater possibility for working together, i see both of those in that category of greater possibility for working together. i think the question will come back to a point that was just raised in terms of deficits and that sort of thing. as one looks at cost. the administration has expressed support for both of them. so the question is a legislative approach to achieve them. we want to thank you for coming and thank secretary burwell for joining us at new america. we hope you ll come to future events here. not always as high profile as this one, we are really glad we could host you today. thank you
Taking place at the Washington Hilton Hotel, the annual event was hosted by Saturday Night Live comedian Colin Host, who attended the event with wife Scarlett Johansson by his side.