Thank you very much. Those were four very well crafted presentations. And mine wont be. Because my job is to listen and tell you what i heard and comment on what i heard. So what i heard from both ambassador aricot and dr. Zogby is they are not very confident that the political process can be revived by this administration or even possibly by the next one. Thats of course disappointing. I recall work written by william quantity many years ago where he talked about the possibilities for making progress in the first year, second year, third year, et cetera, of any administration and basically concluded that the eighth year was basically the best chance for making progress because you had less difficulty overcoming domestic pressure. But at least in the view of these two panelists, that opportunity will not be seized by this administration. And i understand why. Both of them, all of them have spoken about the netanyahu government and netanyahu himself, who i agree is not committed to the
Appreciate that youre advocating for the president s Campaign Promise based on lack of understanding of the lack of reality of guantanamo. A perfectly humane and good place to keep people. We set up procedures to try them fairly and over time and in a way that we are in control of the situation. Rather than a federal judge whose duty is to respond to moving cases trying to assist the government in obtaining intelligence. Senator graham and others and senator graham and others who have been prosecutors see it as i do who are more knowledgeable than i. I feel this is a mistake. Thank you all. The meeting is adjourned. [captioning provided by mlb network] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption contents and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] president obama says the u. S. Will never stop fighting for freedom of religion around th
Senator, no. And it would be very simple to simply just add, oh, by the way, our medical infirmary is on yada, yada floor. We had no idea where to go. The obvious question is, if you had this information, that might have helped, right . If we had the information, we could have saved her life. You know, someone should have given her cpr. Okay. Well, ive got more questions but my time is up for my first round so i go to senator begich. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and i appreciate the opportunity to have you all here today and thank you for sharing your story. Let me ask you, and i think you gave some suggestions, if i remember my lineup in my writing here. You had suggested aed machines should be more visible or available. Im not sure if thats the right word. Tell me what you mean by that. Weve been told that carnival does have defibrillators, aeds, but they keep them locked up because they are afraid that the passengers may steal them. Okay. So and your comment about cpr training
George holding to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer yesterday, the New York Times produced a carefully balanced rationale for ending the federal ban on marijuana. In more that 40 years, this failed attempt at prohibition has been hopelessly out of step. The times editorial said marching toward criminalization, adult use while the federal government maintains its schizophrenic
Billion compromise to address the Veterans Affairs scandal. Those involved in the intense negotiations say 5 billion is paid for with cuts elsewhere and the rest is labelled emergency spending. The veterans need Quick Response. And this is the way that we need to be able to make sure that veterans are not standing in line. Planes and tanks and guns are a cost of war. So taking care of men and women who use those weapons. Reporter the measure includes allowing veterans living more than 40 miles from a va facility to get outside treatment providing some choice and flexibility. I dont believe there will be a flight of all the veterans out of the system. But we dont know until we start this program. Reporter the scandal came to light in the spring when whistle blowers said they manipulated waiting lists to hide long delays and allegations that veterans died while waiting for treatment. It cost then secretary his job. The va is not sacred, the veteran is. Thats the most important thing for