Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the sign institute of policy and politics summer series sign of the time. Im amy, executive director and at the sign institute we are a laboratory for University Wide collaboration and incubator for policy innovation. It can mean the best and brightest of the public, private, academic and nonprofit sectors as well as journalism and its program is only possible by a generous gift from our alumni, jeff simon and his wife meera for todays topic is the path to recovery, what is the true state of the u. S. Economy and it cannot be more timely. We would like to take a moment to acknowledge our cosponsor for this event, the school of business at American University and to think the dean for his support and also thank the distinguished leaders joining us today from our board of trustees and alumni board members. It is my pleasure at this time to introduce the people who will be leading this incredible conversation. Sylvia Matthews Burwell is president of
Is change. Intelligence, Machine Learning, biotechnology. That was the subject that 65 of in our relatively nonpartisan group. We are a collective of people who are active journalists, business leaders, academic leaders. Ago, a founded 35 years friend who exceeded right before you, by bill perry and by our great friend, someone [inaudible] years, we believe that republicans and democrats can come together to talk and plan the most plan for important issues in the United States. The book that all of you have, or hopefully shall have, silicon leaders from valley, the government, from business. We investigate how these new challenges dominate in need to be dealt with by a more productive conversation between the pentagon and americas tech community. We also examined two additional strategy tonas dominate Artificial Intelligence in the next decade and of course, the lagging American Government funding for basic Science Research to our universities. The breakdown of that innovation that Wal
Special member of my own team. Its know exaggeration at all to say that for the past four years, Hazen Marshall has stood squarely in the center of every consequential decision and piece of legislation that congress has taken up. Just wrap your mind around the job. The policy director in the Senate Majority leaders office. Every day that hazen is driven here to the capitol and parked his big pickup truck amid all the hybrids and hatchbacks, hes come ready to work. As a visionary strategist, a lead negotiator, a graceful manager, a constant resource to key players on both sides of the aisle, basically Something Like an air Traffic Controller for the United States senate. With a job like that its no wonder that when my chief and of staff and i set tout to lure hasten back to the . The in 2014, it didnt start out as an easy sell. For one thing hed already served 18 years of hard time here. Hazen started out as an inten for his home state senator, don nickles. The way i hear it, all these
demand driven. we don t train widget makers. the commune to college system has worked so remarkably well. one of the biggest differences between 10 years ago and now and why this is working well is the level of business engagement. if you go to front range community college in colorado, he will see they have an advanced manufacturing partnership, a partnership between the federal, state and local government, the business community and others. look and see the curriculum is being devised within industry. there are businesses whose workers are professors. one of the reasons they love teaching is they cherry pick the best students. that tiny build your talent pipeline. that is how you build your talent pipeline. thank you for your leadership on behalf of comedic colleges. we had four years of desk cap grants. community colleges. it stands for using comedic colleges to catalyze change. what i learned from these grants is that oftentimes, businesses were not talking enough t
were really down. i said, are you kidding me? we got 2900 people to think we ought to run the country. year after year, and then john sununu came, and we have really gathered momentum. in 1994 we elected a class of republicans who just did not give a whit about their election. they came to balance the budget. it was remarkable. and then after 10 long years in 1997, i was one of the chief architects of allen saying that federal budget. first time we have done it since man walked on the moon. we have not done it since. we paid down the largest amount of the publicly held debt in modern history, and the economy was doing great. some of you might remember i was a giants television star on fox news. [laughter] you are right back, how great i was on fox news. i also worked at lehman brothers and learned an awful lot about this, which is so critical in terms of understanding what motivates ceos. so i left. 10 years i was out. i m a believer that if we are really not here to serve ot