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We have more than i think 760 registered for this meeting and we will do our best to get to as many questions as we can during the period but now a little bit about this event. The independent Task Force Program began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to us Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. Once launched task forces are independent of cfr and are solely responsible for the content of their worth. And the task forceprograms 25th year cfr is launching its 78 Task Force Report and id like to welcome you to this discussion of the report and its called improving pandemic preparedness , lessons from covid19. A brief introduction of our panelists, we have cynthia burwell, cochair and president of American University and also former us secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is frances townsend, also cochair, assistant to president bush in Homeland Security and counterterrorism and is vice chairman on general counsel of vic
Carefully and pay a lot of attention to precedent. That is something professor barrett focused on a lot in her scholarship. She cares deeply about precedent and about the institution of the courts. I dont think she would be inclined to move the law very fast . Me a very david in some of the writings i have gotten a chance to look at, she has some skepticism about majority rule. She thinks when Congress Passes look at ithould because if it interferes potentially with individual rights. Tara that is right, but that in and of itself is a very commonly held view by a lot of individuals. Depending on who we are, we care about different rates, let all of us would like a federal judiciary to protect our individual rights from interference. Which things should be left to the political process. This apply to statutory rights as well as Constitutional Rights . We have the bill of rights to protect us. But when it comes to the statute that the congress has passed . Tara i think many members of th