EurasianeurAsian Affairs. Live coverage here on thoigs. Cspan3. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have an unusual procedure today. As usual well defer to the outstanding senators who are here to introduce others, and we thank them for being here. Its an honor to have you here in our committee. We will let them go first so that they can go on to their other business. We will then convene adjourn and convene the business meetings for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominees out and pass some bills out. And then well resume with the great testimony we know well hear from our nominees. So with that, again, we welcome you. If i i dont know if i can remember the seniority order. I know senator cornyn is first in soeniority. Ill let you guys armwrestle over it while senator cornyn gets his comments. Thank you so much for being willing to come and make good comments about outstanding nominees. We thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you, chairman corker. And Ranking Member carden,
In fact, every signatory of the nonproliferation treaty which is every country except five in the world right now except inspections. That is why we have international thank you for being here. We deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa and where the challenges are and where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget has passed the house and clearly it indicates there are some differences is opinion as to where we should be spending that money and we have come to a consensus, at least on the public inside of extraordinary programs like the emergency plans for aids relief, refugee programs and a whole lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like. Ellipsis. They need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers to women and children. We also have a strong commitment on this committee and from our leaders in the state dep
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Im married to a former colonel out of the u. S. Army. I have a son thats going into the u. S. Army. I sit so we consider ourselves a mmit, military family. And im going to tell you, we cannot continue as the solution with everything to send our troops in to do business. There are other means in which. We have to do that. Rselves diplomatic means. We have to have actionable intelligence. We have to use the economics of the situation. So i believe, in particular the Bush Administration used the military far too much and to our detriment in many cases. And sometimes i wonder if the ma Obama Administration doesnt understand that. It feels compelled to understand the situation and doesnt understand that somehow weve got to extricate ourselves south of some of these situations. You mean compelled the use iy military as an option . Exactly. Any ca they may feel compelled. Again, ill be very honest. When he first came in, i said look, we cant continue this. We just cannot continue this. Its no
Different thing. And to say were killing the American Dream with this, the American Dream worked pretty good before 1984. Were not trying to kill the American Dream. Were trying to stir the American Dream. Thank you, senator franken. Senator roberts. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this hearing. Thank you all for being here today. I want to point out 96 of the businesses in kansas are Small Businesses naps the answer in terms of Economic Development for our state. With those folks being our job creators we need to act with partners with our businesses and not against them. I think this new standard delivered by the National Labor Relations Board seems to stand in the way of opportunity and growth. Millions of franchisors, n subcontractors with temporary Staffing Firms will be harmed, in addition to those wishing to be employed by one of those industries. And ive heard from folks all around kb asking me what this means for their business. That means uncertainty. That mean