Disharmony we meet she lays Indigenous People who are embroiled in a land dispute thats getting more dangerous. But off the rails hundreds of thousands of people are left stranded in south africa because of train troubles. And in sports Matthew Wolfe will take a 2 shot lead into the final round of goals the u. S. Open the 21 year old could become the 1st to win the title in more than a 100 years. We begin this news with the standoff between the United States and some of its closest allies over Nuclear Sanctions on iran washington announced unilaterally that sanctions have been reimposed but thats been rejected by every other permanent member of the United Nations Security Council tehran says that it will give a crushing response to what it calls u. S. Bullying the president has done rouhani is urging washington to respect International Law and he promised world powers praised the brother for standing up to u. S. Pressure iran is calling on its International Partners to oppose and defy
[inaudible conversations] good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning and welcome to the 2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. I aim the executive director of the Arms Control Association, and as most of you know we are an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 1971 and dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threat posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons which would of course be Nuclear Chemical biological weapons as well as certain conventional weapons that pose particular harm and risks to civilians. You can find out more about the association, its history, its ongoing work coming in to get more information and analysis about these issues to the website armscontrol. Org and you can follow us at arms control now. The latest issue of the journal arms control today just went online so you can check that out there and also the resources on the armscontrol lap which is simply armscontrol on all of the stores. We are grateful to see so many of you
Treaty to affect either the federalism issues that we have to deal with or to cause a court to look to the treaty to actually affect the individual lives of citizens here in the country . Is there a way of us coming together and writing ruds in that way . Senator, thank you for the question. I think with respect to the federalism issue, a federalism reservation could address the federalism problem that youve identified. Federalism reservation could, i think, be drafted to be somewhat stronger than the reservation that currently reservation attached to the resolution for ratification that came out last year. Conceivably such a reservation would make very clear what the e numb rated powers that congress possesses are. And reserve out of any obligations that couldnt be satisfied through the exercise of those powers. With respect to the interpretation issue, i think a set of understanding could be drafted that would make very clear that the United States does not accord any significance to
I also wanted to acknowledge ms. Newhouse whos in the audience from silver spring, maryland. Attended my alma mater. Shes also a bilateral and beauty and wears prosthetic legs. Shes traveled to over 40 countries for work and study abroad for individuals with disability. Nice to have you here. Mr. Chairman, i guess to general thornburgh, or to secretary ridge, ill give you the chance to respond to this. We all acknowledge that the treaty is based upon basically the u. S. Law, the ada. We passed that in 1990. I remember in 1991, congressman hoyer who was then chairman of u. S. Helsinki commission traveled to moscow and became part of the moscow declaration document, which started the International Effort to use u. S. Law as the model to protect universal university the rights of people with disabilities. So the United States has been leadership. The point i would raise, that failed to ratify i think compromises the u. S. Ability to advance these standards globally. It weakens our own cre
To does his support for the treaty. I know, that the secretary changed his schedule to be with us today. Hes a keynote speaker at the disabilityrelated event this evening in new york. Well be excusing him around 4 30 or so do so. Secretary, were pleased for joining us. Thank you for rearranging your schedule today. I will leave congresswoman duckworth to be recognized by senator dire bin. Someone who has done a tremendous amount of work on the cannot of Veterans Affairs and personal testimony about her personal experience as a Wounded Warrior is invaluable to the committee. I want to ask former attorney general who is here to discuss the practical importance of ratification, and let me also recognize his wife, jenny, who is accomplished in the field of disability advocacy. We appreciate you being here as well. Let me ask dr. Susan from the catholic family and Human Rights Institute. Professor timothy meyer, the assistant Professor School of law. And Michael Faris to join us as well as