Hearing runs just over an hour and a half. Its no secret Artificial Intelligence is having a moment in her lives in myriad ways. The workplace is no exception. Just yesterday President Biden signed an executive order focused on ai governance, critical step in our nations overall approach to how we integrate ai to how larger and larger parts of our lives. This is just the beginning. To make sure our workforces position for success, we want to know how ai is being adopted and how ai is being used in the workplace. Is going to help us understand how we can ensure that workers are trained and have sufficient training and their power to maximize the potential of this rapidly evolving technology. According to a recent pew study, nearly 610 workers whenever contacted had interacted with an ai system or application in their workplace, just in the last year. We know that is just the beginning and the number will continue to rise. Ai technology has been a part of our daily lives for years, from
The ashes . That is what you did in virginia and new jersey. And your guy your guy going to politics who is my guy . Deblasio. My guy. 60 youre a new yorker hes your mayor hes my mayor hes my mayor. Thats my mayor. And he we had him on the show before ive also had commentary that has not always been positive about some of the things he said i know. I know youve been critical you have not been positive of deblasio, im just yanking your chain. So the prospects for tax reform what do we think i think it gets more complicated. Is this a picture of the future . Is this something they can look at a year from today and say election day all over again if we dont have something passed potentially in all fairness im glad you guys got it. Its nice once in a while. You were off a low base. A lot of state legislatures and governors. You are talking about the democrats having a good day for the first time in a long time. Youre looking at the democrat over there . That democrat . Its been a long time
Hill and meeting with both republicans and democrats to talk about trade and tpa. We do need strong support from the white house and the president , ask as i said in my opening statement, we need to be really all hands on deck. What is the administration doing to build congressional support . Well, we have a wholeofgovernment approach to this. As you know, the president talked about this in the state of the union. The Vice President has talked about it, they have met with members of the Democratic Party as well as with the Republican Leadership on this issue. Weve had the chief of staff of the president up here talking about it as well as the secretary of treasury, secretary of commerce, secretary of agriculture, secretary of state, secretary of defense has been writing op eds on the importance of our rebalancing towards asia including tpp as a critical component of that. So we work with all of our interagency partners at the cabinet and White House Level on down to build support up he
37 billion and created helped Small Businesses and created jobs. It also helps us pay down the federal deficit. It has generated over 1. 057 billion returned to the u. S. Treasury, so it has actually helped us pay down the federal debt. So my colleagues all of a sudden are having amnesia why they supported the exim bank or not coming forward to support it now need to remember what a vital tool this is to the u. S. Economy. Madam president . The presiding officer time has expired. Ms. Cantwell madam president , i ask unanimous consent for another 30 seconds. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Cantwell thank you. I just want to close by by saying other countries use these same financial tools, and so a lot of my colleagues can see that other countries for the same reason, when the marketplace doesnt provide a privatesector financial tool to securitize these these products, its important that the United States stay competitive with everybody chasing Global Market opportunities.
long stalled free trade agreements thursday. this follows a deal between republicans and democrats over an extension of a worker retraining program. the treaties with south korea, colombia and panama have been spending since the george w. bush administration. french finance minister christine lagarde is the new leader of the international monetary fund. she was chosen today not long after being endorsed by treasury secretary tim geithner. lagarde is the first woman to hold the job. she replaces dominique strauss-kahn who resigned after being charged with sexually assaulting a new york hotel housekeeper. a group of several republican senators has urged the administration to make sure taxpayer dollars are not used for a bail-out of the greek economy. lawmakers in athens are debating new austerity measures. while greeks are expressing their opposition in no uncertain terms. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot reports from athens. reporter: it started as an angry, but gene