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Can you hear me . Hermione, well get back to you. Well go to doug over at the pentagon with the very latest. Doug, tell me the latest, what the pentagon is saying about the strikes. Reporter well, first strike, greta, came early this morning east coast time as two f18s launched from the carrier in the gulf. Dropped two 500 pound laser guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece. The howitzer was firing indiscriminately on the citizens in erbil. Later this afternoon came more strikes, also from carrierbased f18s and predator drones. The target of the Second Attack according to the aprosht the pres...

Fall under the agencys jurisdiction. So often times requesters are making rather broad requests. Agencies are then faced with trying to figure out what it is and what in the world is it that the person actually wants. One way to deal with this we have talked about this for ages. It was ultimately codified in the foia amendments in 1996 was for the agency to come back to the requester and say, i dont understand what your request is asking for or this is really too complex and its too time consuming and if you are willing to narrow the request and here are some suggestions, we can handle the req...

To move the thing along quicker, you know, for research or for staffing. And then, as we saw, by the way, you know, in the bill that kept the government going for another eight months or so, we saw writers attach to that, you know, fundamental budget bill what was designed to affect derivatives risk. So congress is in it, theyre in wit both feet, theyre in it at the front end, theyre in it in the middle, and theyre in it in the back. There is something, and let me get to this one on the next slide yeah. A guest speaker said derivatives were defined three different ways in dodd frank on purpose...

You know . Who is going to be making their life miserable once this thing hits the street . And this is all about winners and losers like all Public Policy processes. Implementation information. How is the public how are universities going to react who in universities are going to take responsibility for changes in the rugs in their classrooms . How is this going to cur . How do you communicate with georgetown on the one hand or a. U. On the one hand and, you know, st. Olive college out in minnesota . How do you get to these people . How do you let them know this is a change in what theyve got...

Clearly if these prices persist for a long time, then the reductions in capex that we are seeing are clearly going to start coming in down the road. Right now i think were looking carefully, were being prepared with analyses for alternative pathways forward. Right now consumers are having the benefit. Excellent. Ok, a question over there and the mike will be made available. Please identify yourself. Im a Public Policy scholar here at the wilson center. Can you talk about what the role is for biofuels to remain in the future energy mix . Well, i think the first of all, we certainly continue to ...