Adam smith talked Current National security issues. Talked yesterday at an event for the center for strategic and International Studies looking at defense and National Security oversight. This is an hour. Todays event culminates ninth Month Research effort conducted by the interNational Security program. Over 60 u. S. Government and military officials regional and functional Security Experts and leaders from the ngo and Civil Society communities were consulted for this project. We want to thank all of them for insights and perspectives. It was made possible by the sponsor open society center. Tonight key note address is by adam smith give us a perspective on capitol hill. Representative smith is Washington State 9th District Representative and serves as ranging house on the u. S. House Armed Services committee. Graduated from ford Um University with bachelors degree in Political Science and j. D. From Washington School of law. During his last year in law school, representative smith ra
[applause] mr. President , mr. Speaker, mr. President , mr. Speaker, madam chief justice, distinguished justices of the court, honored officials, members of the Washington State legislature, tribal leaders, local government officials, members of the consular corps and my fellow washingtonians. Good afternoon. I want to begin today by thanking oso chaplain joel johnson; the members of the Marysville Pilchuck high school choir; my family members especially trudi; the 13 newest members of the legislature who have stepped up to serve this state; and the people and communities of washington that over the past 125 years have given us the great state we celebrate today. I also want to mention a member i also want to mention a member of our legislative family, the late representative roger freeman. He was proud to represent his community. But most of all, roger was proud to be a father to his two children and a devoted husband to his wife, sonya. Our thoughts are with them today. The new repre
America. And there are still barriers like in my state tragically and it gets back to the earlier question cynthia, about jobs. In new york state, we have the same shale gas resource that they do in pennsylvania. In pennsylvania, they have 60 to 80,000 jobs good paying jobs developing that domestic source of clean gas. In new york state, we have a moratorium we have nothing. And we need to develop resources like that. The second thing i do on energy is create an integrated north american concept of energy independence. Canada developed massive resources. That was why the Keystone Pipeline was going to bring canadian oil to our gulf coast refineries, replacing oil from venezuela. I think that would have been a very good thing. Mexico is just changed its rules so they can bring in American Investment and technology to develop their oil and gas resources. So we can create a north American Energy powerhouse that makes us not reliant at all on the middle east or unstable overseas sources of
Governors mansion bills in the early 1900s. She is quite famous in wyoming and should be nationally. First claim to fame was she was the first woman to serve as a governor of a state and country. She then went on to become director of the united states. She grew up in a very poor family in missouri and later on she moved to omaha nebraska. She taught kindergarten for a very short time. She went down to tennessee to see some relatives. Met William Bradford ross, a young attorney who lives there. After the marriage they moved to cheyenne. Will was fascinated by politics. He ran for governor in 1918 and then ran again in 1922. Elected as a governor in another state. Late over and laramie in september, giving a talk about the importance of he becomes ill. At first it doesnt seem that serious but then it becomes an acute case of appendicitis. So they perform surgery and things go from bad to worse. Since he died about a month before the next general election the rule was somebody would have
Passed for strengthening manufacturing in this country because the wto hobby was violative of the wto. So we try to replace the pen that was also found to be wto violative. So then we passed the present action. At the last minute, oil and gas was placed in the air. It had nothing to do with manufacturing. It was done in the wee hours. We were stuck with days you want a replacement which will have manufactured this country, including oil and gas are you going to vote against the whole dang thing . Accepted a compromise. It has to be extracted talking about oil and gas. Not the last question. Im sorry, francine. [inaudible] everything you run out of tax reform process has been out with a has to measure to make them maybe not impossible, but much less likely to tax reform goes forward this year. Is that basically what you believe . If you could say a word about why tax reform should go forward. What do you see as the upside of that . Im not saying that. What im saying is they think we too