Credible specific dental policies. They would turn this great nation into the position of quality leadership it has earned and kept for many years. A thoughtful, focused and collaborative strategy, formulation process to agree on the few High Priority National security goals and objectives should set us on a there course. Agreeat the International Level active engagement, underpinned with a strong forward resins by u. S. Military forces whose credible capabilities are our best deterrent to Credible Threats worldwide. Thank you very much and i am pleased to address western questions. I want to thank each of the members of this panel and i would like to start with general keane, a question to you about the fight we faced against radical islam, you said that you believe our policy has failed that essentially al qaeda has grown four fold in the last five years. Can you help us understand what you think would be the strongest strategy in terms of defeating radical islam and can you speak to
As speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now rec m fm stsuitd the mari my lea f mni hr te. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each mber the mari a mory leaderanmi w limit tfi mut, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, five mis. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you so much mr. Speaker. As an 8yearold child, i was forced to flee havana, cuba, with a my family for the shores of the United States of america, the shining city on a hill, and a beacon of hope and freedom to the world. The cuban american members of congress are all united by our love of this great country and our love and respect for freedom, for democracy and the rule of law because of where we come from and whom w
Cost. When federal money is involved state governments do not spend their money as efficiently. Host we are out of time. Chris edwards with the cato institute. Robert with the brookings institute. Thank you. That does it for todays washington journal. We will be that you tomorrow morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] president gets briefed by german chancellor Angela Merkel about a scheduled summit wednesday to try to revive a peace plan for easter ukraine. Germany, france, russia and ukraine will take part. They will talk with reporters. Among the issues, Army Fighters opposing russian backed separatists. Live coverage starts at 11 40. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine . We are taking your comments. Here are a couple of the more than 300 comments. Sue says putin is taking advantage of a weak adminis
Its my great pleasure and honor to welcome all of you here. With respect to our guest of honor, ambassador rice i want to welcome her back to this premises. She is a former colleague of martin index and mine both here at the Brookings Institution and in government during the 1990s. And special welcome to her mom, how about that . Her mom has come out [applause] to hear her daughter speak on a very important subject. I have to say just a quick word on lois rice. Im quite sure 99 year history there has only been one motherdaughter team both senior fell lows. One in Foreign Policy and susan and lois in economic studies and lois continues to be an important part of the since staougs. As all know, susan is here to talk about the National Security strategy for 2015 and into the future. The origins goes back to the aftermath of world war ii and the dawn the cold war. Today the big challenge facing the United States and its partners and allies in the International Community is not contain the.
But we also believe we are not doing them a disservice. We are doing them a service. They may be sometimes uncomfortable with what we say, but all of us are pushing in the same direction and that is for the betterment of the people of the country concerned. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] we are looking for them to have the full protections the law provides for. Thank you. Just one last question. What do you think of the escalation . Thank you very much for that question. The office which i lead has a Monitoring Mission in ukraine that has been in place really almost since the crisis. Since the crisis began in the eastern part of the country. We have periodic reports we make available to the international community, and yes we discuss ukraine with a large number of countries. Nationally it is of great concern to the international community. This is a very serious crisis. And we have seen, of course even though we have, all of us have cause for further complianc