Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
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Book, black waves, memory in the middle east. I spent the weekend reading it, i didnt quite get through it. I couldnt put it down, so interesting. If you havent read it, after this evening youll try to get the book if you havent already, but i would urge you to read it. Absolutely fascinating. Very wellwritten and wellresearched, theres a narrative flow to it and its very troubling, i have to say, but thats the purpose of the book, i think. I would like to announce, unfortunately, that our event in two days with ambassador dennis ross who is another expert in the middle east, is unable to come to college station. He had a family emergency and so his lecture wednesday evening will be postponed till later. Kim ghattas is an Emmy Award Winning journalist and writer covered the middle east for bbc and financial times. She reported from iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon, and she covered the war between israel and hezbollah, earning an emmy for International News coverage. Shes also a repor
Good evening. Im andrew, the director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the bush school of government here e at texas a and m. University. I would like to welcome our special event this evening with kim ghattas who is going to speak of the recent book, black wave saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry that unleashed collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading it. I didnt quite get through but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting. If you havent read it after this evening you can get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it to be at its fascinating and very wellwritten and very well researched. There was a narrative thats very troubling. I would like to announce that our event with ambassador dennis ross is another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. Hcollege station. He had a family emergency and so kim ghattas is an awardwinning journalist and writer covered the middl