People to radicalize and carry out Violent Attacks in europe. The Hearing Committee is just over 2 20. This is what it is like to be chopped liver. [ laughter ] the subcommittee will come to order. Our hearing today is on the causes and consequences of violent extremism in the role of foreign assistance. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, deputy secretary of state, antony blinken, bono, from u 26, former allied commander in Europe James Jones and president of the jones group international. And kelly clements, deputy United Nations Committee Member for refugees. Ill make a short Opening Statement and let senator leahy do the same and well have a second round. Number one, this was a good day for photographers. I hope you got a good shot, there. Ive just gotten back from my 30something trip to the region. I had the pleasure of being in turkey with bono and egypt. And each person here is tasked in their own way of trying to inform the congress in making policy de
This is what it is like to be chopped liver. [ laughter ] the subcommittee will come to order. Our hearing today is on the causes and consequences of violent extremism in the role of foreign assistance. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, deputy secretary of state, antony blinken, bono, from u 26, former allied commander in Europe James Jones and president of the jones group international. And kelly clements, deputy United Nations Committee Member for refugees. Ill make a short Opening Statement and let senator leahy do the same and well have a second round. Number one, this was a good day for photographers. I hope you got a good shot, there. Ive just gotten back from my 30something trip to the region. I had the pleasure of being in turkey with bono and egypt. And each person here is tasked in their own way of trying to inform the congress in making policy decisions to deal with what i think is a crisis that you either pay now or you pay later. To the American
I had a lot of people come up to me saying scarborough, i used to be republican. I am not one now. All those people dont limit plan ahead. I cant plan ahead for the next quarter. They could plan ahead because there are such uncertainty in washington dc. They start sitting on their money. They do not hire more people. Banks get leery about loaning money. People get leery about loaning houses. What we have to do in our state is create certainty. A conservative friends that are still working today, keeping taxes low, limited government, take personal responsibility for the things. Create the right work environment. Education is the key to poverty. If we can help people get a better education, we can help them get the job they need to they began being productive citizens in our nation. Here is what we are doing in oklahoma. Im trying to do it nationally. I had opportunity to serve at the National Chair of the governors association. We have an initiative that we launched. Putting america ba
That it is not random. I remember in my earlier time thinking, well, if you have one woman already in one of those top three positions, then no one is going to want to elect the second one because they will think theyre overdoing it, you know . People in the state have gotten used to electing a woman. It could be that there is a role modeling that is going on and more women are really thinking about becoming political. The women themselves, and some of the women in those positions have said, no, actually, i showed the next woman where the pockets of energy or the pockets of money were. It is like bringing the next one along. It is so exciting, because we have to find ways to really expand these numbers. We cannot just keep moving along. It takes 200 years at the rate we are going. I am not kidding. Literally. You have to find ways to say, we already have one woman in this state come hell or high water. We are going to run a woman for governor and a woman for senator in that very state.
Republicans without qualifiers, we kind of looked the other way when this group was doing its own thing. I think the Government Shutdown was the straw that broke the camels back. Senate. They the money againsting me. That opened the floodgates. Then all the other one started piling on and asking the same questions. Last few weeks there has from theiful silence more a survey part of the party. Everyone is involved. Seeink you are going to more of a concerted effort financially, structurally, in the media, and it is a way of not just eating defined by one very vocal group not just being defined by one vocal group. They go out in the cold and rain. Lot to get me to protest these days. I think this has been good. On your first question about obamacare, the best thing to happen to obamacare was the Government Shutdown. Who waser asking a guy about two and a half weeks in when we finally started talking about the website and all the problems remember there were glitches. When can we start ca