Can i alert my colleagues that are here to introduce individuals normally we would turn to you and let you do that. But this meeting is has some more controversy than most hearings have so this is the way were going to handle it. Im going to make an Opening Statement, a little longer than usual. Senator feinstein will make a statement thats longer than usual. Then because of the two states that are involved, and for different reasons, but coming to the same conclusion, normally we dont have members speak, but i felt i ought to give the courtesy to both senator kennedy and senator said he wanted to speak about the controversy and his nominee. Then im going to turn to senator franken and senator franken will have up to five minutes s that okay . Youre going to introduce people, but i would like to get the controversial statements out of the way first. That makes sense. Okay. Congratulations to all the nominees and to your families and everybodys welcome at the committee. Two weeks ago, i
Groups inside syria from these three countries. I mentioned a lot of it is money being raised through social media, charities. A lot of times its kind of a complex situation where you have money thats being raised, allegedly or essentially for human train operations and then gets used for military purposes. So i think having a president chairing this Security Council meeting tomorrow, it will up the pressure on these countries to cut off the flow of money and funding to the Islamic State. And if you dont get in line, you know, you could potentially get targeted yourself. Not military but sanctions have always been a tool used is used to try to force countries banks, individuals not to provide money to terrorist organizations. I think that would be a big part of his speech, kind of outlining the conflict and how the financial element of it, the foreign fighter element of it, the ideology. Theres been a lot of diplomacy led by secretary kerry and others over the past few months to get th
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