There is a Silver Lining for beijing in the sense it releases some of the pressure. Protesters do not have to go to the street, they can vote . Bill it does. Carrie lam has said she will work with those newly elected Council Members and listen to their points of view and take that into account when she is carrying out her policies. One of the easy steps to take at this point would be to go forward with independent inquiry into some of the police action. That is something even probeijing supporters in hong kong have started calling for. That will be one easy way to show she has heard this message that the election has delivered. Capitalou mentioned the of the United States response to hong kong. Legislation went through congress and President Trump was saying he might sign it and might not. Where is it, exactly . Bill the president has 10 days to decide whether he wants to sign it or veto it. 4,hink that expires december the middle of next week or so. If he does not sign it, it becomes
Now, before we start i want to thank a couple of folks and a couple of institutions. I want to thank the institute for technology, law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is also part of Georgetown Law Center, the betten foundation and no civil la foundation for sponsoring this event. I also want to thank senator richard blumenthal, and i want to thank jamie who is a Research Fellow at georgetown and kind of my personal law clerk and doing a fabulous job. And alexander givens whos the head of the institute who some of you may have heard broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m in friendship heights, a shoplifter knocked them over and down a flight of stairs. I was in that h m, like, the day before. If people could send well wishes to alex, shes done a fabulous job running the institute. I also want to thank the other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, one of our panelists, who are going to be helping today with various an
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Vaxart has hired
Ricchetti Incorporated’s
Jeff Ricchetti to lobby on “legislative and regulatory policies regarding oral vaccine development and funding,” according to a disclosure filing. Vaxart is developing an oral vaccine for Covid-19, an effort that garnered scrutiny from both federal investigators and the SEC earlier this year after accusations the company may have overhyped its involvement in the White House’s vaccine accelerator Operation Warp Speed. And Ricchetti, of course, is the brother of incoming White House senior counselor