The incoming Congressional leadership has outlined legislative priorities including reducing the deficit, raising the minimum wage, repealing some tax cuts, addressing the costs of college, requiring the government to directly negotiate with drug companies to secure lower prices for Medicare beneficiaries, taking a firmer hand on trade agreements, and increasing subsidies for alternative fuel technologies and greenhouse-gas controls. AEI scholars Joseph Antos, Claude Barfield, Kenneth P. Green, Kevin A. Hassett, and Frederick M.  Hess will discuss these issues during the first panel of this event.
 
Last week’s midterm elections sent a clear message to America’s leaders. But what is the message on foreign policy? Out of Iraq or timelines for Iraq? Talks with Iran or forget about Iran? Some have speculated that the Bush doctrine has failed. Does the return of senior officials from the administration of George H. W. Bush signal that this president is ready for status quo ante? A new secretary of defense and a new Congress will face up to the same old challenges and more. Can we anticipate new strategies on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea? Will the new Congress end America’s embrace of Putin’s Russia? And what about the rise of China? AEI scholars Leon Aron, Dan Blumenthal, Frederick W. Kagan, Danielle Pletka, Michael Rubin, and Gary J. Schmitt will discuss U.S. foreign policy in the new Congress during the second panel.