The even now has bio starts with the banking committee. But he also serves on the intelligence and banking committees and new jersey economic subcommittee on the banking committee. He grew up in yell county and arkansas and attended both harvard and harvard law school. We will try hard not to hold that against you. Deserve vick clerkship in the court of appeals and are practicing law but after september 11th he decided to change his career path and join the United States army, served five years as an entrance to the officer. A really aweinspiring number of words and declarations including the bronze star, infantry badge and the ranger tab. After leaving the army spent a short amount of time and consulting work for mckinsey ran and the house of representatives and did such a good job and was chosen by the citizens of, and we really appreciate you joining us this morning. The floor is yours. [applause] thank you fair match. Andrew, thank you for the kind introduction. The strategic and I
Russian challenge in europe. This is a joint event between the Defense Initiative group and the Missile Defense project that i run. At big events like this, we ask folks to familiarize themselves with the surroundings in case you have to exit. There are stairs around here or take the exits to the back. To kick things off, i will hand things over to Andrew Hunter to introduce our first speaker. Andrew good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us. Im Andrew Hunter, director of the Defense Industrial initiatives group. This event is an collaboration is in collaboration between our two programs. For those of you who are wondering about what the definition of collaboration is, we are giving you a demonstration this morning. Its my pleasure to introduce senator tom cotton to give us some great remarks and a preview. I am looking forward to the speech. Senator cotton is the senator from arkansas. He serves on a number of important committees in the senate, including near and and dear t
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra
As you all noticed, when you ask questions about negative ads congressman cotton talks about obama. Ask a question about the cotton bill . He talks about obama. You see a pattern . Clearly he is running against one man but i am running for 3 million arkansans. That is what this race is all about and the difference in this race. Im on your side. When i looked at you and i come home and travel the state and hear what is on your mind, thats when i go to work. Congressman cotton loves to throw out these phony stirks about how much i have agreed with president obama. You all know me. You know i dont agree with president obama on a whole variety of things. Just take the Keystone Pipeline. Take the dpa regs on carbon. Take the cuts to Social Security. I disagreed with him last year on gun control, so much so that when i voted no on his legislation, mayor bloomberg of new york city ran ads in arkansas criticize major league for standing up for your second mendment rights. I disagree with obama