Lawmakers at a house subcommittee hearing relocating the us embassy in israel. Committee unnecessary will come to order without objection will declare a recess at any time. In 1995 Congress Passed the Jerusalem Embassy relocation act which states that jerusalem is the capital of israel but to remain an undivided city that the American Embassy should be relocated from tel aviv to grossmont. Yet for more than 20 years us president had signed waivers forestalling the embassy move. To this day, 50 years after the liberation and reunification of jerusalem, the state of israel one of americas allies is the only nation in the world in which the American Government refuses to locate its embassy in the host nation chosen capital. The candidate for president , donald, promised to move the embassy to islam and he has reaffirmed their commitment since taking office. There are good reasons why the president will follow through with this commitment. For one thing us policy should recognize jerusalem
Public service by americas Cable Television companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Now, i hearing on whether to locate the American Embassy in israel to jerusalem, something then the candidate trump promised to do in the president ial campaign. We will hear testimony from former ambassadors. This is almost two hours. Subcommittee on National Security will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Act995, Congress Passed an which states that jerusalem is the capital of israel, should remain an undivided city, and the embassy should be relocated to jerusalem. Yet for more than 20 years, president s have stalled the move. If the years after the liberation and reunification of jerusalem, the state of israel is the only nation in the world in which the American Government refuses to locate its embassy in the host nations chosen capital. As candidate or president , donald trump promised to move the embassy to israel and has r
Ask you to check that the various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin. For everyone inhouse there will be a slight shift in the program agenda. Our keynote will now follow our first panel, but it will also occur before the break that is scheduled before the second panel. So, opening our discussion today will be dr. Lee edwards, distinguished fellow and conservative thought here at the Heritage Foundation. Please join me in welcoming dr. Edwards. [applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We thank you so much for coming out today. August is something of a slow month in washington, dc, and were so pleased that we could attract some of this Towns Limited attention to the matter of u. S. Taiwan relations. And i extend a warm welcome to our speakers, panelists, and of course, to you, members of the audience. Particularly want to offer my appreciation to the Taiwan Benevolent Association of america, and the inst
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Potential president ial run meaning he may challenge hillary clinton. We want to begin with a con tkpwaeugs with gun and gun ownership. A new study looks at how Many Americans own a gun and a third have at least one gun. We have divided our phone lines differently for the first 40 minutes. We want to hear only from gun owners and heres our question, why do you own guns . 2,027,488,000. And 2027488001. Skwroeufrpb us on facebook and send us an email at journal . Org. Hes been looking into some of these numbers. Thank you for being with us. Hi, steve. Thanks for having me. Host a surprising number. One in three americans own guns. Where did you come up with this figure and what was your Research Like . We conducted a national represent tative survey of all u. S. Adults. 18 18 anyone from the age of 18 and we asked them good gun ownership so they answered that they own at least one gun. You got to keep in mind that this is a question for each person, not the household survey. So they said