Worked very hard to manage those alignments so it doesnt create too great a tension. As time goes on, ive seen greater congruence in our views, not less. If i could follow one piece, you did mention that youre just back from ankara, the role and the relationship with turkey has been complicated, its been vital, its been seen as quite tense at times. It seems youre quite optimistic right now. So, one of my questions there, you see, for example, the kurdish being an effective force fighting within syria, but again, this is sort of just to get to one area where there are differences potentially differences between Coalition Members on how to approach a particular ontheground partner. How do you see that kind of dynamic playing out . Well, its its actually been naturally pretty remarkable what the kurdish elements in syria have done to eliminate daesh from a large segment of the border. There is still a border which is in the hands of daesh and thats problematic, and its an issue for the w
This recent poll done by pen sean and burr land. Robert green joining us to talk about it. Mr. Green, thanks for your time. Thank you, sir. Up next on cspan3, a look at the dodd frank Financial Regulations five years after they were signed into law. Well hear from House Financial Services chair Jeb Henserling on the law. And thomas perez talks about regulating retirement financial advisers. Later, a discussion on islamic extremism. When congress is in session, cspan3 brings you more of the best access to congress with live coverage of hearings, news conferences, and key Public Affairs events. And every weekend its American History tv traveling to historic sites, discussions with authors and historians, and eyewitness accounts of events that define the nation. Cspan3, coverage of congress, and the American History tv. President obama signed the dodd Financial Regulation into law five years ago. Up next, a panel talks about the different provisions of the law including the creation of th
Use by executive land holding agencies. In your opinion do you believe that gsa has done everything in its power to give life to the directives embodied in section 6409 which you referenced in your testimony of middle class tax relief act . Have they done everything they can . Mr. Chairman, i do not believe they have. As a matter of fact, im a former administrator myself of the federal agency and if i had implemented something too poorly that congress instructed me to do id be embarrassed. Theres an executive order by the president of the United States correcting gsa to move faster to get these contracts together and to date nothing has been done. Three years after Congress Enact this legislation, progress has been slow gsa hasnt been proactive. Proactive. I think our members are having to negotiate for each and every site individually just as they have in the past. Gsa has not implemented the intent of congress and we cant wait three more years for whats needed i think today. Theres a
And combine forces command. You can see the last few minutes at cspan. Org. Now urban Affairs Hearing on diplomatic actions as the u. S. Seeks to deter north Koreas Nuclear program. We have asked each of our witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple of minutes each so we can get to opening request wes. I will ask the senator to follow the fe minute allocation for their questioning. Lets proceed. Thank you. Distinguished members of the committee im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy the destabilizing and repressing actions of north korea. Today i will share with you aspects of our strategy which we are executing at a pace. We are foe cussing on key financial vulnerability. It can be used to support directly oirn directly its Weapons Development programs. So a key part of our strategy is by targeting the regimes most profitable including coal, labor and sale of weapons and other goods. We represented dunzs that support these lines of
Capitol take you to hill where earlier today, state Department Officials talked about the effectiveness of sanctions on the north korean regime. This Senate Committee hearing is about one hour, 20 minutes. Good morning. Come to order. Our witnesses needs to leave by 10 30 a. M. To join secretary tillerson in china, and we also have a vote. To allow time to ask questions we will submit Opening Statements for the record, and we ask each witness to shorten their statements to a couple minutes so that we can get right to the questions. Obviously i will ask the senators to be very careful to follow the five minute allocation. First we will receive testimony from the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial crimes. Following her, well have testimony from the acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Without anything further, lets received. Let us proceed. Please proceed. Chairman and distinguished members of the committee i am honored to appear to