The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi
Thats already been generated about this program. We have over 100 people who are going to be here today with us in person, and many more who are watching it over the web. Dentons is pleased to be presenting this program, and with its presence in the u. S. , canada and mexico, we have extensive capabilities and experience at the critical intersection of business, Public Policy and crossborder relations. Many of our practitioners are here today to share their experience and perspectives. And were so happy to also be joined by key members of industry and governments who can also add their valuable perspective. With that, im going to turn things over to scottie greenwood, who is the co lead of our federal practice. Scottie. Thank you, joanne. Welcome, everybody. We are really delighted to have you here. This is what its all about gore us in Public Policy, bringing together, policy leaders, thought leaders, our clients, our prospects. Everybody that is looking to understand what could happe
The task force on Election Security is a group of House Democrats looking into the voting rightvotingrights issues6 general election. They held their First Public Forum on thursday to hear from the Homeland Security secretary j. Johnson and former secretary for the National Protection suzanne spaulding. Topics include efforts to respond to and address russian interference and recommendations for congress to secure the 20 team and 2020 election cycle. This is an hour if we might, we can begin our hearings. Obviously was delay with the arrival of the former president members. They continue to pray for his continued recovery and his families constantly in our mind. This is our Congressional Task force on Election Security. We are kind of looking forward rather than backward trying to figure out did we miss something, can we use this as an opportunity to fix things for the future. We have obviously the cochair and the Ranking Member on the house administrations have a comment for the recor
Can begin our hearings. Obviously was delay with the arrival of the former president members. They continue to pray for his continued recovery and his families constantly in our mind. This is our Congressional Task force on Election Security. We are kind of looking forward rather than backward trying to figure out did we miss something, can we use this as an opportunity to fix things for the future. We have obviously the cochair and the Ranking Member on the house administrations have a comment for the record. In the interest of time im just going to submit it for the record. We are joined here by the former secretary of Homeland Security j. Johnson and former undersecretary for the National Protection and Program Director at for the department. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We will allow you to begin and we will now hear from you thank you for inviting us. I accepted this invitation first because it is an opportunity for me to reconnect with undersecretary spaulding. Im here because the res
Next on cspan2, discussion about nafta ongoing trade talks. This portion of the conference included a former canadian ambassador to the us and current and former government officials from mexico and canada. Followed by a discussion about how nafta negotiations could impact ongoing trade talks. Good afternoon. Welcome. My name is joe then, the Office Managing Partner in washington and we are pleased to welcome you to the Washington Office of dentons for the nafta twopoint oh summit. It seems appropriate to say not only welcome, but also. [speaking in native tongue] we are pleased to have you here and to present the program today, which is streaming live even as we speak and will be available afterwards on the dentonss website. Change can be unsettling, but it also present opportunities. There is so much interest that has been generated about this program. We have over 100 people who will be here in person and many more are watching over the web. Dentons is pleased to present this progra