The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. August 22, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable brenda l. Lawrence to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house gathered here at the capitol for an extraordinary session in extraordinary times. Inspire them with wisdom as they hope to address the needs of our nation in such a difficult period of our shared history. Continue to bless those who labor to attend to the sick among our citizens and those also who strive to find effective treatments and vaccines. Keep us all safe in your divine mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Ame
Talking about the we are very delighted to be here to have an indepth discussion about the prospects for progress on a weapon of mass destruction free zone in the middle east with stink list with speaker assistant secretary for nationaltal customer. Ford. Istopher organizationrgest dedicated to nonproliferation issues. We have headquarters in Monterey California as part of the mill Berry Institute of national affairs, which is a graduate school of middle barry affairs, of national which is a graduate school of middle barry institute. The ges it is normally understood that it is very difficult to make ingress on Security Issues the middle east because there are so many moving parts. In the middle east, there hasnt been a moving part for quite a few years. Hat may be about to change the gridlock may be coming under pressure because of recent developments we will be hearing about shortly. Podium over to the director of the James Martin Center Nonproliferation Program and she will east hav
Issues, not economic ones. That being said, although they are intertwined these days when security is so critical to the United States and japan and to the philippines as well, that being said and the japanese as we all know are too polite to say this, there is unhappiness in japan over president bidens decision to publicly oppose the sale of u. S. Steel to nippon steel so we thought to focus on the importance of u. S. Japan cooperation on Economic Security, on reliable supply chains, on japans significant and longstanding direct investment across the United States and the potential benefits that an enriched u. S. Japan Partnership Offers to American Workers and allied technological leadership. All these things will be on the agenda at the white house next week. We have two panels of experts today. One on Economic Security that i will moderate and another on Foreign Direct Investments that my japan chair colleague will moderate. But first we have the honor of a keynote and discussion w
Between the United States and japan with leaders from the Defense Department and Japanese Ministry officials. The Hudson Institute hosted this visit. Good morning and welcome to Hudson Institute. I serve as japan chair at hudson and i want to welcome our audience here at the bessy and walter Stern Policy Center in washington and i want to welcome our audience on liep and online and through cspan. On the eve of Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas historic visit to the United States on april 10, it seemed like an appropriate moment to examine the benefits of the deep and expanding u. S. And Japan Economic relationship and as all of us in this room have seen on the news reports, including by certain members of our audience here today in the press, about the impressive deliverables that will be coming out of both the u. S. Japan summit on the 10th and u. S. Japanphilippines trilateral summit on the 11th, most of the focus object the discussions will be on security issues, not economic ones. That
Allen. This is daybreak australia, two hours away from the open. Betty off to another week. Just past 6 00 in new york. We will look at how all the action on wall street will play into the asiapacific trading day. Despite these jitters over north korea, im sure that will be a big topic as the yuan general gathers. Mbly i want to show you how we ended stocks on friday before the weekend. The s p inching higher, up 2 10 of 1 , the dow climbing 65 points as well as the nasdaq about 20 points, 3 10 of 1 . There is a lot happening this week on the policy front and centralbank policy front with the announcement we are expecting about detailing, reducing the Balance Sheet and the boj, as well. Paul plenty happening on the central ink front. Front waiting on china prices. On the markets, you are right. Business as usual with the s p up 2. 5 thousand points. The first market up and running, up 1 5 of 1 . The new Zealand Dollar weaker against the greenback, the election looming in new zealand. E