Retaliatory. Congress should update legislation submitted codifies caterpillar the definition of wrongdoing should include retaliation against whistleblowers. Jackson should also be provided by the v. A. The government has failed in its responsibility to care for veterans. Thank you. Ms. Halliday thank you for the opportunity to discuss how v. A. Oig interacts with whistleblowers. This is my first hearing as Deputy Inspector general, and i look forward to working with the congress. I testified and congressional hearing in my previous role as the assistant Inspector General for audit, and i welcome the opportunity to share with you the work of all components of our i. G. I am accompanied by the counselor to the Inspector General and the assistant Inspector General for health care inspections. I assume the position of Deputy Inspector general on july 6 2015. Past three weeks taken immediate steps to strengthen the oigs Whistleblower Program as well as our whistleblower protection ombudsm
You dont show that by counting out anyones child. You give them all a chance, and thats what we did in florida. [applause] a lot changed in those years. Graduations grea rates went up. The number of students passing exams increased four times over. We became the leader in Early Childhood education, and we still are today. Among minority children, florida saw the greatest gains anywhere in the United States, and what is that show . It shows that every child can learn, no matter the race, background, where they live. I know this can be done. The debate is changing. Old orthodoxies are falling away, but we can never forget that longterm reform does not help a child right now. Years of learning are years that are lost forever. I think of the kids in washington dc who receive opportunity scholarships, a couple of thousand boys and girls, almost all black, have been given a chance to leave the worst schools and go to the best. Yet every to leave the worst schools and go to the best. Yet ever
There is no way to turn this clock back. I dont want to turn it back. We need to recognize inherent in each virtue, and i summarized them on the side, is the risk. To the degree that i concentrate or communicate or take people out of the loop, et cetera, to the degree i buy the benefits of this technology and each and everyone of those steps i introduced security consequences that are, give risk, give rise to greater risk, the virtue of the system is intertwined with its limitation, its liabilities and its risk. That is fundamental. It is not just that the complexity of the system gives me these problems. One reason Technology Fixes just dont get me there, every time i buy more security i tend to do so in ways that are involving sacrifice of virtues. I want to spend a minute having talked about software to say a little bit about hardware because the hardware insecurities are quite, quite real as well. Youre aware of that. Easy example i can give is just people tend to think about suppl
From the role of the u. S. Dollar as the dominant reserve currency or from the role of the United States as a safe haven for capital. Theed we might say, one of key things that the United States produces is a social does serve so well as a safe haven for saving some capital. You could say that what john makin, liked to call the wealth Storage Service effectively is traded internationally for net imports. Have a truly distinguished panel to address the economic questions of trade deficits amidst the current Political Forces in play. Each member of the panel will speak for 13 to 15 minutes, opening comments after which, we will give the panelists a chance to react to ideas and clarify their points. After that we will open the floor to questions and will adjourn promptly at 00. At 12 00. L, thewill be jeff franke professor of Capital Formation and growth at harvard university. He is on the Business Cycle committee and previously served on the council of economic advisers Whose Research in
Speakers included a formal consultant from the office of the u. S. Trade representative and member of the White House Council of economic advisors. From the American Enterprise institute, this is two hours. Well start again. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, im glad youre with us. Im alex pollock from the r street institute. And we welcome you on trade deficits and the Trump Administration. It goes without saying debates about trade, tariffs, other barriers to trade, balance of trade and payments and shifts in foreign exchanges, whether the flee of gold in old bays or reserves nominated in fiat currencies now have a long and controversial history in domestics and in politics. These debates feature the famous and essential contrast between the interests of producers on one side and those of consumers on the other, abiding asymmetry and pressures for adjustment between countries with persistent deficits like the u. S. Versus those with persistent surplus, germany for example. Naturally