[background conversations] [background conversations] [electromechanical sounds] [background conversations] [siren in background] [background conversations] [standing by for live event] cspan viewers are familiar with Richard Trumka, the president of the aflcio. We found out another 2. 1 lane americans fell for unappointed assurance insurance last week 2. 1 million americans filed for Unemployment Insurance last week. Can you give an idea of the effect is this coronavirus have done it has had on union jobs in america . There are two aspects, the members still working or people still working, we are concerned about their health and safety. The ones who been unemployed through no fault of their own, youre looking at 50 millan people now. Epi says in may and june, the Unemployment Rate will be 30 . In america. You are looking at 50 Million People now. There has been a loss of income for various groups. Hispanics, 58 percent of expense a loss of income and blocks, 55 and asian markets 48 ,
All right, welcome everyone. This is our Second Annual it is becoming an annual tradition what to do this close as possible following devcon, which is very popular for a lot of us. If you are out in las vegas, it would be for you. I am very happy to see so many people in the room, and i know there are more following us online, the internet, twitter, or on cspan. My name is bo woods, i am the director of the diversity initiative. I would like to welcome you to event hosted by the cyber cyber statecraft initiative. I would like to welcome those who are following on the webcast. I encourage you to join the conversation with the twitter hash tagged acccyber. Devcon two d. C. , we hope it will policy forayer of people to understand the significance, urgency and Response Options to the flood of Technical Information from the hacker conference that took place in las vegas. That is devcon, blac chyna black hat, and others. Joinedry pleased to be by a distinguished group of my colleagues and fr
That one thing is. The reality is the administrations had the money to do everything its wanted to do. This bill provides more money on top of that. Our senators are proposing even more, so we go to conference to figure out the appropriate amount and whether or not and to what degree it should be paid for. I hope its all paid for. It should be because we have the funds to do that. So to suggest that theres some sort of failure of funding is simply not true. And my friends know its not true. To suggest were not willing to put the money here would suggest that recent history has no relevance because we put more money here than the president asked us to put and we committed to put even more going forward. So i would the only difference here and what drives my friends into a frenzy is that we actually want to pay for this. They simply dont. They think, lets just put another 1. 9 billion on the National Credit card. This is a great excuse to do that. Well, were not prepared to do that, but
Chapter. Reseller looking at these at the conceptual level despite explaining to each other whether the object is that we should achieve within this chapter and also conversations about how to facilitate and solve specific issues on each side of regulation and regulatory framework. There are discussions on this topic. Specifically i referred to not an issue that has been discussed. Maybe i will just elaborate a bit. We did undertaken a highlevel working group to address the sanitary or sps measures mostly related to food safety. What we said we would do to explore ways in which we could explore or sps class aspects for disciplines that go beyond and elaborate on the current wto requirement that food safety requirements be based on science, risk assessments. So what we are discussing during these grounds is the various ways we can focus on some of these requirements, focused on sun consulted mechanisms that we can put in place to have our regulators Work Together to achieve the sps plus
Host that breakthrough year, is something that took leisa the president s press conference. It was highlighted in the paper today. Here is president obama yesterday talking about the economy and his 2014 being a breakthrough year. Up and whathat all it means is we head into next year with an economy that is stronger than it was when we started the year. More americans are finding work ad experiencing the pride of paycheck. We are positioned for new growth and new jobs and i firmly believe that 2014 can be a breakthrough year for america. Outlined in detail earlier this month we know there is a lot more we are going to have to do to restore opportunity and brought based progress for everyone. It is a good start that earlier this week for the first time in years both parties in both houses of congress came together to pass a budget. That unwinds some of the damaging sequester cuts that created headwinds for our economy. It clears the path for businesses and for investments that we need t