Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
Welcome back. We didnt solve all the problems in the last pane panel so we wiy to solve them on this one so there will be an easier time when he comes. Right now we are going to shift over it to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit we have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four different countries, egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador and she was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and food portfolio than she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the d
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I actually hate sitting up here. I feel so far away. Skid the staff if we can move the chair position down to the front row but they said theres no room for the benches so we couldnt reverse the order of the dias, another day, another room. Subcommittee on oversight and accountability will come to order. The purpose of thise hearing is to examine the state departments Climate Policy and the budget of the special president ial envoy for climates office. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. As we examine the state departments climate agenda and budget, we are joined today by former secretary of state john kerry. Thank you for being here today. First ever president ial enjoy forr climate. Mr. Kerry, youre sitting at a newly created position but from all the research that ive done in two years youve largely managed to avoid any real oversight or accountability in that position. Now my Community Cares about this as an issue. We sit on floridas east coast. We felt the consequence