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Get into the question of what policy can do and what the administration has proposed to foster higher savings. And so im going to start with the macro case for higher saving. So, the u. S. Personal saving rate, which is loosely defined as saving net of new borrowing divided by aftertax income has declined markedly over the past several decades. Americans saved 12 of their incomes on average in the 1970s. About nine percent on average in the 1980s, and about seven percent on average in the 1990s....

Guest it would be information on threats and risks, basically on threat signatures, potential attackers that would help a company if it chose to do so defend itself better. Its not going to be privacy data. Well, thats the hope. Probably not. But its a good first step, and i think if you talk to some of the sponsors, they would tell you, you know, we know its just a first step, we know we have to do more, but we can get agreement on this, and it builds consensus on the hill to bring forward on c...

Host james lewis for the center of Strategic International studies is regarded as one of the leading site for Security Policy experts in washington. He is our guest this week week, the communicators. Both the house of the senate have passed socalled cybersecurity legislation. What exactly would happen if that legislation gets enacted and put into law . 2012 congress tried to pass comprehensive of the best cybersecurity bill maybe not the best bill but they could not pass so they felt bad and the...

Levels, 40 of the people who save in open accounts dont go through the paperwork to get the savers credit. And as gary said, we dont put that credit into the account. So i think if the states look and say were going to create these accounts, one of the ways to grow these accounts faster is to put the match in the accounts and then the other piece to make it simpler is lets make that match stick. You know, i think there would be a lot of agreement of saying at least the match that you get cant co...

Deduction Retirement Plan through work and plan design, automatic enrollment. So, tax reform, i think can compliment those features. But we shouldnt lose sight of that. Those are two key things that we need to continue to push forward with. With respect to tax reform, one thing i would say is that we need to, i think in order to have impact in that debate, we need to talk about what it means for additional savings, what it means in the context of tax reform which is focussed on making tax cuts s...

This program is about 90 minutes. Mr. Bond Justice Thomas, thank your for being with us on explorations in black leadership. I want to begin with a question about brown v board. Did you have some sense that this was a big deal . Justice thomas well, not at the time. The big deal was learning the multiplication table and learning how to add, but as the years went on, particularly 1956, 1957, you got a sense of it because there was quite a bit of talk about it. My grandfather was very involved in ...

Commission talks about the role of money and etices in Political Campaign campaigns. The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion today on Disability Insurance and proposed changes to the program. Among the speakers was tom cotton of arkansas. This is an hour and ten minutes. [ applause ] thank you, john. And let me add my welcome this afternoon to the Heritage Foundation. Social securitys Disability Insurance program was established in the 1950s. Like much of our federal governments social safet...

System to have to navigate medicare and medicaid. There is a promise in the fact that the state and federal government are trying to take this on, after 50 years, we have some demonstration in place for this issue that we have highlighted for decades and we really have had no progress. I appreciate the fact that many states are trying to do something. It is far from perfect, it is a struggle. It is a struggle for those states to go a different route where we mandate organizations. This is an imp...

1952 decision. In this case the justice is affirmed the separation of powers by determining that president truman act the beyond his authority in seizing control of the nations steel mills during the korean war wh and imminent strike was threatening to shut down the actions. The court ruled that the president s actions, unconstitutional because they had not been authorized by congress. Find out more next monday live at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan3 and cspan radio. You can learn more about...

And after the courts decision. That is coming up next on t weimar cases on cspan, cspan3, and cspan radio. For more background, order your copy of the landmark cases companion book. It is available for a dollars . 95 plus shipping at cspan. Org landmark cases. Here on cspan live at the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. Or a discussion with our consent arkansas republican senator tom cotton on disability benefits. Joining us on the cspan network, we remind our internet and Television Viewe...