Please join me in thanking Charles Duelfer for his presentation today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] taking you now to new york city where the u. N. Security council is about to meet discuss and possibly vote on a resolution to set guidelines for removing chemical weapons from syria. It was announced yesterday that five the councils permanent members including the u. S. And russia had come to an agreement on a resolution and its now going to be brought before the other members of the Security Council for consideration. Reuters has a story on a resolution saying the major Sticking Point up to this point was russias opposition to enforce compliance with the threat of sanctions or military force. The article goes on to say the draft resolution makes the measure for removing weapons legally binding but provides no automatic enforcement of syria fails to comply. Instead the Security Council would have to draft a second resolution and we will take a look now inside the room. The Secur
Cspan, created by americas cae companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host steven ran roque l, what is a u. S. Chief Information Officer do . Guest well, the u. S. Chief Information Officer wears a few hats. One is sets the budget for the technology span of the executive branch, so it covers all the agencies of government and the department of defense to think about and form late the president s budget every year and do that. The second thing is through the egovernment act that we have in the u. S. , the u. S. Chief Information Officer has the ability to set policy, Statutory Authority to set policy government wide with. So thinking about, you know, visionary view of Technology Use in government and driving that forward as part of the, part of the, what we do. And then the third is and this is really under this administration the u. S. Chief Information Officer, a title and role created by president obama acts as an adviser to the president a
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Almost 40 of households that bring in less than 40,000 a year lost their jobs. Goldman sachs now predicts 1 in 4 americans will be out of a job thanks to the coronavirus. That massive job loss also means Massive Health care disruption. New data shows 27 Million People may have lost their employerbased Health Insurance since this started. Millions now without options to get new coverage. Everyday life is also getting more expensive. Grocery bills jumped in april by the biggest amount in nearly 50 years. Eggs and beef had the biggest price hikes. The president s posture is open now, and he promises things will look more normal by fall. That despite warnings from his own top scientists if states ease restrictions too quickly or too much, there could be a major resurgence in cases. The president s testing czar says 50 million tests a month is the target by fall when schools are schedule today reopen, but already, the largest fouryear Public University system said it will not take the risk