speaker. jerry zrimski washington bureau chief of the buffalo news. jerry's the chair of the speakers committee and a former national press club president. speaking over our speaker for the moment rod kukrow, reporter with energy wire ee publishing and the speakers committee who organized today's event. thank you very much rod. jack againhart co-chief of staff to cheryl le failure and ale fleur and a guest of our speaker and ed bochart. esther wielden, a senior reporter with snl financial. and frank mozano, senior principal at bracewell giuliani. [ applause ] so the presence of so many people here in this room today says volumes about how the federal energy regulatory commission, or ferc as many of us call, it has emerged from the bureaucratic shadows. the commission's job -- the kigs'skigs commission's job is to regulate interstate natural gas pipelines and electric transmission lines. ferc plays a central role in the debate over how these industries should evolve in the 21st century. there are questions, for instance, about what if any role ferc should play in epa's plan to curb gre

maquiladora in northern mexico when trico out of buffalo relocated windshield manufacturing. and then we visited the homes of the mexican workers who visited for penny wage penny wage jobs and lived in squalor. what kind of a gift is that to the world? i have stood in vietnam watching children, little boys under age standing with bare feet on the rim of bowls that they were standing and spraying with lacquer and breathing in all of those fumes, hurting their own health for the future, for export to the united states. and today as i stand here as an ohioan tw plantso plants, u.s. steel and lorraine, ohio have announced over 700 layoffs and a company called hugo boss which is a german company which has an outlet in brooklyn, ohio has given pink slips to over 170 workers. if you go into a hugo boss outlet in your community you can buy suits that cost $1,200. the workers in my district have taken a 17% pay cut. and that wasn't good enough. so i'm here to say this is a day of reckoning. i am so proud to be with my colleagues, all those who've been elected and are fighting to add justice, econ

basically east vail on the other side. this proposed tunnel became known as the red buffalo tunnel because it cut between buffalo mountain and red peak on the summitt county side. now, the sticking point was that this -- here's a sort of schematic map that the sierra club -- i colorized, but what you can see here is the sticking point. that green shaded area, that was a wilderness area. that's the eagles -- it was then called the eagle's nest primitive area. and by legal definition of wilderness, this place was supposed to be off limits to road construction. but in this particular case there was actually a clause in the wilderness act of 1964 that landmark -- which landmark act that created the wilderness designation, the legal designation of wilderness, the wilderness act actually had a clause in it exempting this one wilderness area. the clause empowered federal officials to withdraw wilderness protection from this one area so the interstate tunnel could be built under the gore range. there was no other wilderness area in the country that had a clause like this in the wilderness act. red

notion for the great plains would be to turn the entire region into a vast nature park or buffalo commons. we always knew better and now the entire nation knows better as well. this graphic published by governing magazine in april shows how the people of every county in the nation have faired in terms of their personal income between 2007 and 20012. the counties in dark brown show the greatest gain in personal income. north dakota was the only state to show gains in personal income in every single county. more recent data shows that north dakota's personal income continues to be among the nation's highest. in fact, north carolina's personal income is steadily risen since 2004 from 13% below the national average to 19% above the national average. our economic progress has not been confined to oil country. north dakota's growth and personal income is fueled by our state's robust economy. over the past 10 years north carolina's economy has averaged an annual growth rate of 10.3%. nearly 3 times that of the nation's economy. we also continue to have the nation's lowest unemployment ra

buffalo this morning where when they have half an inch of snow, that's sort of like spring right? it's like pollen on our cars here. i'm kevin levinson, the executive director ofo we are delighted to have you all here. before i turn it over to our moderator ambassador, john, i would like to thank team diego, inez. we have a big announcement that we made yesterday which was the launch of a new blog called america's trade policy.com. it was actually created in 2013 by bill chryst at the woodrow wilson center for scholars. it's a new content platform for wida. we welcome input from membersccÑ and members of the trade community. there will be information on it in the back, outside the room when you leave today. in fact, john was going to mention this in his remarks. we're really pleased that a book by the peterson institute on economic normalization with cuba we're going to be publishing the first chapter of that on our blog. john will talk about that but you'll be able to find that on our website. on thursday, january 29th we're hosting a panel feature the reverend david beckman of bread

was. this is where mirabella mar was when he and the rest got word of a big buffalo herd in the vicinity. they jumped on the horses, congress avenue -- wasn't the avenue. it was a muddy ravine then that led north to the hill where the capitol sits. the men galloped on the horse s. they stuffed their belts full of pistols and rode into the midst of the buffalo firing and shouting. lamar at 8th and congress shot this enormous buffalo. from there he went to the top of the hill to where the capitol is. he told everybody this should be the seat of a future empire. >> watch our oh eventses from austin saturday at noon eastern on c are-span 2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span 3. >> during this holiday season on c-span 3 american history tv. today's focus on spies and rogues. first a look at the relationship between benedict arnold and george washington. then a discussion about russia, cold war spies and the u.s. nuclear program. later, espionage during world war i. >> peterenriques looks at how