Freedom and no structure has been put in place to comply. Or is it that there is simplicity by looking the other way rather than just on structural things . I would be interested to hear the panels view on as. Thank you very much. Lets start with that. Okay. I do think the kuwaiti government is aware that this is going on. They may not know the extent of it and i dont know how deeply. But they certainly know that its going on. And i can say that with near certainty. So i will give you an example of one of the ways that it has been difficult for kuwait to do anything about it. One complication is that a lot of the people involved are part of this in one particular individual that you actually mentioned is a former parliamentarian. On twitter he said lets get people to the streets. And that sort of person when you are dealing with those is particularly difficult. And theres one example that i thought was very telling, given a great story of two different fundraising events that were held
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Mcconnell i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell im not sure if you have a fax machine at home, not Many Americans do anymore. Neither do a lot of Small Businesses. So it seems a bit a odd to tell Small Businesses they need to fax in enrollment foamplet for be obamacare for obamacare. That is what the Obama Administration is now doing. I might paraphrase the president , the 1980s called and they want their Health Policy back. Now, to be fair, snail mail is also an option and it looks like the president s people will try to have the issue fixed soon despite passing the law more than three years ago. But then again this is the same president who told us that obamacare is working the way its supposed to, president obama said, and that those who already have Health
Please join me in thanking Charles Duelfer for his presentation today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] taking you now to new york city where the u. N. Security council is about to meet discuss and possibly vote on a resolution to set guidelines for removing chemical weapons from syria. It was announced yesterday that five the councils permanent members including the u. S. And russia had come to an agreement on a resolution and its now going to be brought before the other members of the Security Council for consideration. Reuters has a story on a resolution saying the major Sticking Point up to this point was russias opposition to enforce compliance with the threat of sanctions or military force. The article goes on to say the draft resolution makes the measure for removing weapons legally binding but provides no automatic enforcement of syria fails to comply. Instead the Security Council would have to draft a second resolution and we will take a look now inside the room. The Secur
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