D. O. D. Will be testifying before 20 hearings before congress in the coming days as we continue to brief the hill on the departments f. Y. 2021 budget request. As you know, i was in afghanistan on saturday with president ghani and nato secretary stoltenberg where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to afghanistan which reaffirms United Statess partnership with the government of afghanistan. This was an important first step toward a political solution to end the war in afghanistan. As i reiterated to our afghan partners, this is a conditionsbased agreement. A conditionsbased agreement. Were watching the talibans actions closely to assess whether they are upholding their commitments. I also had the opportunity to address our troops and Coalition Forces while i was in kabul and speak with m. S. O. , v. S. O. Groups while back to the United States. We must not forget this agreement was part of the tremendous sacrifices our service men and women have made over the past 18plu
Investigation. In addition to those lies mccabe began an investigation into the president of the ask United States. Mccabe also signed off on the final fisa application. During an appearance on cnn immediately following todays developments, mccabe criticized the department of justice for daring to threaten his ability to get away with what may well be one of the single greatest abuses of power in american history. As glad as i am that the Justice Department and decide do the right thing today, its an absolute disgrace that they took two years and put my family through this experience for two years before they finally drew the obvious conclusion and one they could have drawn a long long time ago. Lou mccabe could well have been jake was the fate of President Trump and the special counsel investigation. Or he could have been talking about general Michael Flynn for whom the nightmare has been three years. Mccabe, however, could find himself perhaps maybe in further jeopardy. During this t
Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
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Us. Today session is an opportunity to speak on the deterrents and signaling effect of financial sanctions, well and as many of you know well, economic u. S. Sanctions and economic tools which in general terms to those, named people or entities that should have access to the u. S. Financial system of those new people are entities to pose a threat to u. S. National security and the use of sanctions has become central to the exercise of u. S. Foreign policy and National Security over the last decade and in fact i would say, sanctions are a favorite policy tool of this administration in particular the top. The topic for todays session is also the subject of a report and i got jordan good to my left and i cowrote and we are releasing today, those of you here joining us in person will have seen that when you came in. Do not forget to take a copy, of the report includes findings of hours that came out no workshop and signaling and deterrence of sanctions and put it by the Franco Family Found