Hudson. My name is richard weitz, and the director of the center for political director of the center for political and military analysis here at hudson. Today we are honored to talk about an important report and the port subject that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association on empowering congress a nuclear authority, blueprints for a new generation. I want to take the welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you might have now, that would be very helpful. The report and either work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association has been over a year, and independent project over collaborated with these organizations last you doing through events on hill, congressional briefings on the Nuclear Threat, the too
Hudson. I am the director of the center for political military knowledge. Today we are honored to talk about an important report, important subject, congressional efforts to oversee the Nuclear Security effort, more specifically a report copies of which are outside by the partnership for secure america and the Arms Control Association on empowering blueprints for a new generation. I want to welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier if people can silence any cell phones you might have, that would be very helpful. The work we have been doing with the association, we collaborated with two organizations the last year and doing three events on the hill congressional briefings on Nuclear Threats and tools of the trade, encountering the threat and the global Nuclear Security architecture. The report and presentations we gave in congress, the Macarthur Foundation. The agenda for today, we have 3 presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional Nuclear
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And the finance Agency Director mel watt. On the status of the Housing Finance system, fannie mae and freddie mac have been in conservatorship for close to 9 years. In september of 2008, hank paulson famously described the conservatorships as a timeout. Fannie and freddie along with fha continue to dominate the Mortgage Market. 70 of the mortgages are backed by the federal government. Fannie and freddie currently earning profits at the Housing Market experiences a downturn, taxpayers could be on the hook for billions of dollars. The status quo is not a viable option. The Housing Finance system dependent on two governmentsponsored enterprises and perpetual conservatorship is not a sustainable solution. Taxpayers today bear too much risk and the government plays too bigger role in the Mortgage Market. A number of groups release proposals for reform in recent months including the mba, i cba, milliken institute, several coauthors writing jointly for the urban institute and many others. The
Taken by late tonight into early tomorrow morning but the big news the low clouds and little break the clouded up again pallid 50s on the temperatures almost 60. A southerly breeze colder temperatures. Some pretty impressive low clouds and drizzle, we will have temperatures in the 60s imino upper 50s right now one of those days where it gets mostly cloudy skies and light rain. We did your job already. A little forewarning about the flooded offramp. I just drove through it. Looks like we will have a busier commute this morning because of the slick roadways and stuff we see the chp login we started tracy towards livermore westbound 580 things look good. Taking a closer look ultimate past we see a lot of great and further west was than 580 e. Of hacienda there is a report of a crash and that her truck is on the way. Taking a look at eight taking a look at 880 n. And south that in oakland the roads are west and slick. Supplement 880 very close to this picture the on ramp there was a collis