And combine forces command. You can see the last few minutes at cspan. Org. Now urban Affairs Hearing on diplomatic actions as the u. S. Seeks to deter north Koreas Nuclear program. We have asked each of our witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple of minutes each so we can get to opening request wes. I will ask the senator to follow the fe minute allocation for their questioning. Lets proceed. Thank you. Distinguished members of the committee im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy the destabilizing and repressing actions of north korea. Today i will share with you aspects of our strategy which we are executing at a pace. We are foe cussing on key financial vulnerability. It can be used to support directly oirn directly its Weapons Development programs. So a key part of our strategy is by targeting the regimes most profitable including coal, labor and sale of weapons and other goods. We represented dunzs that support these lines of
We have a vote at 1030 a. M. In order to allow more centers time to ask their questions, agreed brown and i have to submit our Opening Statements for the record. Witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple minutes each. To ask theim going senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questions. First we receive testimony from ,he honorable Sigal Mandelker and following her we will hear testimony from ms. Susan thorton. Without anything further, lets proceed. Please proceed. Mandelker i am honored to appear before you to discuss our strategy to combat the oppressive actions of north korea. This administration is applying maximum economic and diplomatic pressure to counter this threat. Are essentialls to this campaign and it become among the semester nations top kinetic tools of choice. Today i will share with you aspects of our strategy, which we are executing at a rapid pace. At a rapid pace were focused on attacking the Financial Vulnerability
Dont those cases trying to question whether there can be the best construction of the language where those cases are wrongly decided because they are not covered . This may need should probably revisit it is actually pretty glaring but it doesnt mention Price Waterhouse even though it was decided 6 years after Price Waterhouse but if you are asking do we have to . I agree there is a differential between what the Supreme Court said and what Circuit Courts have said as far as tolerating genderbased differentials but if you dont want to do any more work it would be sufficient to rest it on the differential there that did not involve a constitutional right and differential here absolutely does. Discriminating against people exercising their constitutional rights, a private employer as we read in the newspaper the last couple days can fire someone for expressing his political opinions. Absolutely, we certainly have. It is not just gay men and lesbians who have fundamental right to marry but
One of our witnesses, ms. Thosht needs to leave by 10 30 in order to join secretary tillerson on a trip to china and we have a vote at 10 30. In order to allow more senators time to ask their questions, senator brown and i have agreed to submit our Opening Statements for the record. And we have also asked each of our witnesses to shorten their open statements to just a couple minutes each so we can get right to the questions. Obviously, im also going to ask the senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questioning. First we will receive testimony from the honorable siegel, the undersecretary of for terrorism and crimes. And following her Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Without anything further, lets proceed. Undersecretary, please proceed. Thank you. Chairman crapo, distinguished members of the committee, im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy to combat the prov
Understand why were upset. You cant understand when department of Revenue Services in the state of connecticut where not 6 , but 41 of the people, 41 make those deductions, so what youve asked the state of connecticut to do is what mr. Zelden your colleague described of new york and the same thing is happening in massachusetts and new jersey and in maryland and in california and oregon and washington state, coincidence dental but having said that what youre doing to them is asking this regional shift of money, youre asking them to pay more. Its double taxation and and youre taxing the success of professionals because theyve been successful in what theyve done, and youre doing it without a single expert or public hearing. Thats what were mad about. We started out what we thought was on the same page, with everybody saying that question, we certainly would like to see lower individual rates and lower Corporate Tax rates. And yes, we thought that it would be a good idea also that if they