On the foreign intelligence matters. You recently wrote that the Church Committee experienced of your Church Committee experience is its important we recognize the extraordinary power the United States has in the international respect for our constitutional principles. But it often seems in times of crisis we forget that power. Why is that . I think the phrase in times of crisis. We cede we being the other branches of government particularly the congress cede to the executive branch great powers. If we are under assault or perceive ourselves to be under assault. The problem is that then encourages administrations to, i wouldnt say generate crisis, but to elevate a crisis to acquire power. This is where congress is most under pressure to do its job and to ask questions. Not to undermine executive authority but to defend the constitution. And protect the American People. Again, as i said there and ive said many times in other places those of us who have had a chance to travel the world k
Tly hearing on science, space and Technology Committee with gina mccarthy. And faithbased organizations and delivering care to countries with hiv aids. This first group looked at a report on Global Health conducted by the lancet. This is an hour. Good morning. Sorry for the few minutes delay getting started. Im the Deputy Director of the Global Health policy here at csi s. It is my pleasure to welcome you for what promises to be a new series on faithbased health care. Before we get started, thanks to anita smith. I want to say thank you to katie on my team, instrumental in pulling everything together this morning. Faith is a powerful force in the lives of individuals is and communities throughout the world. Faithbased organizations are an important provider of health care globalry and resource for Health Services and support, particularly at the Community Level and hard to reach populations in some of the poorest places in the world. As rick Warren Church noted there may not be a churc
The scope of safeguards and there could be some extensions of authority that are appropriate as part of this agreement. The iaea will require continued Financial Support. The process for Financing Agency activities is to get approval i should wind back again. The iaea is a member of the United Nations family of organizations. As such, it has its own membership and has its own budget and a formula for assessing members in accordance with approved budget to carry out programs. To change that requires today the approval of the 35 governors which is very difficult under any circumstance so whether all 35 would be enough or whether it forcing it to a vote is unusually not the way that the agency would operate. So i would hope that part of the American Perspective on how it can make this effort succeed is to consider a contingency grant to the agency of something on the order of 50 million which sounds like a nice round number but it is much smaller than the i have to say, i dont know exactl