Beneficial effect as to the significant commitment of troops. Mr. Pregent im concerned about our footprint right now. 5,000 americans are in iraq and 100,000 shia militia members are in iraq, led by the same people that targeted americans five years ago. They made these threats. I dont think we can do the leverage part where we start to curb or reign influence, try to get militias to stand down without putting our current footprint at risk of being targeted. Mr. Doran so the 5,000 troops we have there are hostages in a , or potential hostages if iranian policy were to change. Mr. Pregent our footprint is constraining our ability to go after isis. Mr. Doran at the risk of putting you on the spot, how many troops mr. Pregent 30,000 iraqs and syrians. Mr. Doran were talking a commitment of 60,000 troops. Mr. Pregent doesnt have to all u. S. S. , just a natoled, led force, becaus i dont think iraqe once it to be russialed. It instantly a strong natoled force that has the ability to say no,
Comply with new regulatory mandates than it is for a larger institution . A very small institution, we recognize there are burdens involved. We have often tried to tailor our regulations so that there is less burden and fewer rules applied to smaller institutions. There has been an increase in capital standards that apply to those institutions but most of the things we discussed today, stress test and other things, liquidity regulations apply to those institutions and tried to make many efforts. To simplify the Regulatory Regime and capital regime for those institutions. The number of changes negatively affect the community to offer products and services to consumers more than it has affected larger institutions . I dont know that it has affected smaller institutions more than larger institutions. I would submit that it has because to be honest i dont know how you started this. I dont know how you start business in this economic environment. Dont know how people could secure capital or
Point cadet prayer i grew up with called, do the harder right, rather than easier wrong, we got everybody in the room under the leadership of deputy secretary sloan gibson, veteran service organizations, members of congress, their staffs and so forth. We said, you know, were going to lock the door. Well slip the food under the door. Youre not coming out of the room until you come up with a new law. We now have a new law, but it has got to be passed by congress. So if it we can get these laws passed, the ones i talked about, veteran outcomes are we said if we get this lay passed, as we work down the backlog, eventually we will be able to deal with an appeal in one year, in one year. Not five years plus. So it is just a matter of taking the problem, solving the problem, but then you got to get congress to pass the law. Comes back to our audience, yes, sir . [inaudible]. General, just hold on one second. Were going to get you a microphone so the cspan audience can first i would like to sa
This happened in a matter of less than two minutes. We have seen in communities all across america from sandy hook, to charleston, to san bernardino, to orlando, the carnage these weapons can cause. I ask american tonight, what is the civilian purpose for a high capacity clip that allows you to shoot up to a hundred bullet without reloading . You dont hunt with that or protect your home from that. I come from western pennsylvania. We have a lot of deer hunters. We dont hunt with those guns. Why should someone be able to buy such a bullet . Does the Second Amendment give us a right to buy a weapon that would only be able to purchase our officers vest . Why should anyone be able to buy body armor . What is the purpose of that in civilian society . These are weapons of war pure and simple. Tonight, is the very beginning, we are asking if you are on the nofly list and our government suspects you of maybe being connected to a terrorist organization so they dont want you on an airplane, we d
There is an odd connection to paul ayber because he was one of the judges at nuremburg the law school in lsu is named for him. We will talk about the various aspects of war crimes so it is very interesting connections. Our next speaker is Carole Emberton who is an associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Carole works on the civil war era as does everyone else here. Her first book was beyond redemption race, violence and the american south. She is currently working on a book that will be titled a folk history of freedom, dealing with the federal projects, writers projects and the interviews of former slaves during the depression era. Her paper today is a hungry belly and freedom rations, refugees and reconstruction after the civil war. I am delighted to introduce Carole Emberton. [applause] thank you, everyone, for coming to spend a portion of this glorious spring day inside with us. Since i am it is kind of fortuitous since i am the last speaker before lunch that i