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Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager and head of Government Affairs solutions here at Bloomberg Government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of our biannual hill watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas, and of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the ne...

The constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the american people. That is just what we are trying to do in collaboration with cspan, as we have invited you to join us in a listening to these important oral arguments and then convening afterwards with some of americas most thoughtful scholars who have filed briefs and are taking positions on both sides of the case to help us unpack the arguments we just heard. Friends, this has...

We will receive testimony from the secretary of the check treasury as required under title iv of the cares act congress has appropriated 3 trillion to protect to fight the pandemic and to stabilize the infrastructure of our economic system. A large portion of this funding is from the title iv of the cares act which has significant resources for loans and loan guarantees and other investments from the Federal Reserve with the emergency lending facilities in the states and municipalities and tribe...

Continent even my dear colleagues on the low side of the. Thank you new york said on to our warm welcome to you all of us i think people are doing this today i am stunned at the nokia from kampala the pier in uganda well heres a quick look at some of the stories well be looking up to today. We will show you how random easy im going to be standing on to harvest moses by looting off the terraces we will also should move down the jury it is supplying schools and green energy steam that used to be s...

Total 2. 2 frillion relief in the cares act and its far below the investment that the federal government provided in 2009 and 2010 in the education jobs fund. And whereas the Public Education is one of the largest employees employers of any organization, public or private, in the nation. And whereas published Economic Research has demonstrated a strong connection between a countrys g. D. P. Growth and its investment in elementary and secondary education and whereas research has found a strong ca...

Court. The question is straightforward. To the states have the power to control, through law how an elector may vote . The do not, the words of constitution against the background of the framers naked clear that the states have no such power. What is also make it clear that the states have no such power. What is also clear is that washington does not like the design. Votes cast that the are not, as the constitution expressly describes them, their votes, but instead of the votes of the state, art...

Books written by fellows of the cooper institution at Stanford University. You will hear from former secretaries of state schultz and rice, economist, soul, kissinger biographer and historian neil ferguson. Former George W Bush justice departmendepartment official, ad winning author Shelby Steele in the first, heres a portion of the 2013 interview with george schultz, secretary of state during the Reagan Administration he talked about his book issues on my mind. And the issues in my mind, you ri...

With them and to lead them for the last 3 1 2 years and i will an even greater privilege to do so as the director. I have spent my entire career about taxpayers and their families. I have fought to save them money areensure their tax dollars well spent. I come from a bluecollar family. Electrician and son of a teacher. Tonow what they went through balance their budget and save for the future. Long, hard orked hours to put me through school. They worked very hard to pay for the government and the...

Good afternoon and welcome. I want to take a few brief opening remarks and then ill turn it over. Then ill turn it over to Ranking Member sanders. We are here today to consider, to serve as the nest director of budget. To serve as the director since there were 20. Teen President Trump nominated him in march as the nations facing a unprecedented crisis, both health and economic from the covid crisis. The office of management and budget paint played a key part, in addition to building the presiden...

Massive local tax increases. Anyone of those alone threatens to make this economic crisis even worse and the combination of all three is almost unthinkable. The bureau of labor statistics just reported that state and local governments laid off nearly one million workers in april. That is almost one million firefighters, police officers, teachers, Emergency Personnel that should be on the front lines of the Public Health crisis but are sidelined instead. Chairman powell, let me start by asking, d...