global development hosted a summit last week paper mong the speakers, former senator tim wirth and william riley, head of the environment protection agency under the first president bush. this is almost two hours. >>> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm nancy birdsall, a warm welcome to all of you. i'm the president of the center for global development. we're very pleased to have all of you here. i know that for many of you you're here because of rio plus 20. our point today. what can be done? this is a huge opportunity for the global community to worry over and put together some serious recommendations to deal with the poverty, energy, climate nexus. this is absolutely crucial for our center for global development, because we are concerned with the risk that greenhouse gas emissions pose for the development community, for the development project, for the great success of reducing poverty over many years, and at the same time we're concerned with the obvious need for energy access for millions of poor people if they are going to have a better livelihood. dignified jobs and so on. we're parti

williams. [ applause ] >> thank you, general davis, and good morning again. throughout this national security symposium, roa's convention body will also convene. 90 years ago on october the 2nd, 1922, brigadier general henry j. riley founding fathers established this great association. it is now both my privilege and honor to preside over our 86th national convention. now is our first item of business, the roa minuteman hall of fame welcomes another inductee. a great citizen patriot who has conspicuously contributed to the advancement of our roa programs and objectives. it is an exceptional honor for me to introduce our first speaker and induct this year's newest addition to the minuteman hall of fame. our speaker has been referred to as the premiere military man of our age. he has distinguished himself with his leadership, valor, creativity and diplomacy. in the area of scholarship, his masters and doctorate degrees from the woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs at princeton university and his leadership of the combined arms center where he led the development of our current counterinsurgency manual reflect the marvelous intelligence and insight he brings to bear on any issue. his integrity is

riley? >> mr. president, all commissioners are present and before we go to the next item would you like to make some comments? president adams: i want to welcome monetta white and william ortiz-cartagena. welcome to your first small business commission and welcome to the commission and this is exciting. we have some really good people with mark dwight now on the commission so i'm looking forward to working with each and every one of you so thank you very much. and i want to apologize to regina -- and i'll get to this. but regina and i were in a meeting just now dealing with small business impact for the new -- not new but payroll versus gross receipts tax that's being floated around. so thank you all for accommodating us and scheduling this meeting an hour late. that's it. >> all right. >> president? can we ask the new commissioners to tell us something about themselves. president adams: absolutely. thank you, commissioner riley. commissioner bhite: i'm owner of 1300 on selmore. we've been in business four years, going on five years this october. we have approximate 35 employees, our spraunt -- restaurant is american cuisine with a southern influence. i am a native san