Have live members of congress who will speak. I thank you for joining us. We have another halfdozen senators and representatives with record remark we will play once we are done. This is the 20 eighth edition of the congressional pics and follows two days after the Congressional Budget Office, and 854 billion, the record was 234 billion in the 864 billion would be the sixthlargest annual deficit. Since the supposedly earmarked moratorium, members of congress have set a record for the amount of spending according to citizens against government waste cry to which we develop back in 1991 with the bipartisan congressional pork busters coalition. The amount spent was 15. 9 billion, a 3. 0 increase in fiscal year 2019. The numbers may adopt a little bit from 282, two to extend for, decrease of 2. 8 . Since this league in 1991, cagw has identified 111,417 earmarks costing taxpayers 375. 7 billion so yes, those little projects due at up over time. The increase in porkbarrel spending occurred b
Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
Today is about dyslexia. One condition that affects the brain assesses, britain spoken language is considered the most important learning disability. I know senator cassidy is going into a large information in data that i want to again sad i wont say again. The reason the National Center for learning disabilities highlight the many challenges our country faces when trying to meet the needs of other learning disabilities. At following her dreams and her passions. So i want to thank you for your consistent leadership and look forward to hearing this testimony. Testimony. I will now defer to senator murphy to introduce the witness. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for thank you very much. Im eager to get a testament as well. I had to come back but im excited to introduce the expert of experts at the end of the table which is doctor Sally Shaywitz from Yale University where she is a professor in learning development at the school of medicine. Shows a long list of titles including t
Bastion of cnbc asia for 20 years and ive brother at the wall street journal. So my question is, we used a kind of joke at cnbc that someday we would all be working for murdoch and media and im going to end on the larger question which is do you think that is the case and the future of objective journalism as we know it collects what is your view on it . I sort of have a negative view and im hoping you have a more positive view so we can be positive going forward. The charge we came in here with was answer the question can brew per murdoch save journalism and you can work that in as well. Its interesting, is he a savior for journalism now . No. Has he sustained excellent reporting done a number of his raw jax . Absolutely. Did he do it with an idea philanthropist in so doing more public minded lex i think less so as he wanted to be part of helping shape the conversation with the elites and the public into the determine outcomes with top officials. Very Good Journalism happened as a con
[applause] welcome. Thank you all for coming. I want to also acknowledge my friends in the audience here, claire, steve and my daughter jean who actually encouraged me reprieved it we to arrange this event, which im so glad i did. I was visiting that jesus had been here in the area, so im so glad i perceived that i listen to my daughter. That was great. I will come back to my main prepared remarks any moment. Today of course is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of resident kennedy. Those of us have a certain issue that it very well. We are looking at the audience, most of you are the same category as value that remember where we were, what we were doing. There are lessons that kennedy so can teach. Ill show you all the books and documentaries and tv shows, terry python. One thing that has a direct relevance to my talk is that he listened and learned. Having covered the white house, i can tell you many president s do not listen and learn. They are frozen in their own little bubb