S focuses on the vietnam war. Inability to the plans led to a battleground. This is about two hours. It is a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Serves as the head of the American History division. A west point graduate, he is veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and iraqi freedom. No surethor of victory. His new book reassesses american strategy in vietnam, Oxford University press 2014. It was recently selected for inclusion on the chief of staff armys professional reading list. Welcome kernel welcome kernel datas welcome colonol daddis. Thank you for the kind introduction and bob for the invitation. Be here,only happy to given new york traffic, im also lucky to be here. As i watched the clock tick away not only on the palisades as we were driving down from west point but also in the cap tried to get us from the hotel to hear hotel to here, it was a close run. What i thought i would do would be to start with something that happened in the white house last week. There was an
Negotiating objective. This is straightforward improvement in the act and makes no changes in the language that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the committee. The only change is the is to move it from section 2a11 to the end of section 2b. The reason relates to effective enforcement in the rule of law dwoesh dwoesh negotiating objectives. In particular, the dispute settlement objectives require ustr to seek provisions that treat the United States principal negotiating objectives yawly with respect to the availability to resort to dispute settlement under the applicable, availability of equivalent remedies. As for principle trade objective, objectives. Therefore, by moving this from overall to principle, we do get the enforcement that i have been talking about at some time. Mr. Chairman let me just make this clear and ill be glad to ask mr. White the question. We have cleared with the ustr that this amendment is consistent with their negotiations of the trans pa sifb community a
Try it for two months and see what the difference is. Thousands a dying and sick because of the exposure to the deadly toxins at the work site. They issued a report called the 9 11 Commission Report that sold more copies than harry potter. Most read document in the history of our country. I nominated them for the national book. They didnt win. They should have. If we cant protect our president , our workers our people, then we cant do anything. Your department is the most Important Department in the entire government. You took 22 different agencies that werent talking to each other on intelligence and other areas and are forcing them to talk, share information and protect this country. Youre doing a great job. We havent been attacked again but people are trying. In the great state of new york they have tried 14 times. Because of your agency and the locals, we prevented it. Were preventing the attacks on our great country. Id like you to take your workers down to 9 11 and hear the stori
They wont have employersponsored Health Insurance which, by the way, has zero tax consequences to the employee. They have no tax consequences, but under obamacare, every american is forced to buy a product whether they want it or not, even if they cant necessarily afford it, so then people now under obamacare have to go and buy a product that the government dictates to them that they have to buy at a price that government dictates that they have to peso either they get Health Insurance with no tax consequence or pay so they get Health Insurance with no tax consequence or with money they already paid taxes on, so now theyre going to get double hurt under obamacare. So the president wins, the American People lose, thats our choice. The president wins, the American People lose. Financially, freedom new york this case, the most important case, religious liberty, thats not acceptable under our constitutional guarantee of liberty. The magna carta taught king john that no man is above the law
Buildings, recognizing some important person or deed, those type of things. And they are generally agreed to. Despite all the negativity in washington, those are things that we agree to constantly. Both sides of the aisle Work Together on getting accomplished. But we saw very quickly after republicans lost the majority in november of 2006, sometimes Republican Leadership would agree to allow some suspensions to go when it was extremely important, it should never have been brought to the floor on suspension, which means it doesnt go through subcommittee, doesnt go through committee, just comes to the floor without having gone through rules committee, and thats why it takes 2 3 of a vote because its bypassed the normal procedure. So there were a handful of us that decided back in 2007, since Republican Leadership at that time were agreeing to things that we knew our other friends in the republican side, some friends on the democratic side, would never vote for, if it was a recorded vote,