nonbinding, noncriminal ethics code. chief justice roberts was asked if he would come down and testify today. he did not. justice luteig is saying congress should draft it, that it has to power to do draft laws. that is a stalwart conservative who s obviously disagreeing with some of the republicans the congress right now. senator tom kennedy says justice thomas is the victim. that is a stretch indeed. whether or not a law was broken is not something that can be resolved in the snap of a finger, and whether or not doj even looks at this is an open question. but we do know enough to know justice thomas is not the victim here, he is the recipient offal manies of dollars of gifts and valuable items which he alone
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris said she was concerned that two recent draft laws in Ukraine could undermine the right of religion as guaranteed by international law.
government to get done, not only the cabinet should have been done about five months ago, but lebanon, as you know, goes through a lot of political turmoil. and we have had elections, parliamentary elections, that really played a big role in delaying all this process at least three to four months, two months prior to the elections and two months post elections, because most of the decisions that our government was taking, including the prior actions that were requested by the imf, none of them were very popular decisions. they were all very difficult decisions. so the previous parliament didn t want to adopt them, even though we put them in a form of draft laws. and the new the new parliament as well, didn t want to adopt them immediately without doing further research and study into them. that really made us waste about four months. it was really hard luck
level agreement deal, we literally put on the table about 12 scenarios that really tackled all those issues and most of those draft laws, including the budget, the capital controls law, the banking secrecy law, the banking restructuring law. none of the scenarios we put on the table, stephen, was easy. they were all very difficult, very challenging scenarios. it is true you mention now that the budget was not very realistic as far as the numbers go, but the minister of finance in lebanon himself, in his own words, said that this is not the ideal budget. this is an emergency budget. it s not a budget, really, with a with a major economic vision. it s that word again, it s a fantasy budget. that s a budgetjust to, you know, get the get the government and get the numbers straight.
well, well, let me explain this approach, stephen, to the budget and to many of the draft laws that we worked on and passed to the parliament for final approval as we were going into our eight weeks of negotiations with the imf prior to getting to a staff level agreement deal, we literally put on the table about 12 scenarios that really tackled all those issues and most of those draft laws, including the budget, the capital controls law, the banking secrecy law, the banking restructuring law. none of the scenarios we put on the table, stephen, was easy. they were all very difficult, very challenging scenarios. it is true you mention now that the budget was not very realistic as far as the numbers go, but the minister of finance in lebanon himself, in his own words, said that