Gone along way. Unfortunately the russian government, vladimir coo and are not famed for this kind of sensitivity towards ethnic minorities. Sergei reminds us in 2010 they went to the vancouver olympics, sending out the wrong signal given that the cossacks associated with the destruction of the native peoples. I dont anticipate, wouldnt anticipate any kind of effort by sarkhasian to disrupt the games. If there is these are islamists, not sarkhasian nationalists. We have seen islamists targeting people with a National Agenda in places like bulgaria in the north caucusus, we have seen a few fascinations of academics who have been trying to portray non islamist identity for the sarkhasians. Just to finally a few extra words about the north caucusus. I should also mention another reason abkhazia is problematic which no one has mentioned so i should mention september 9th the russian vice consul in abkhazia was assassinated, the main suspect is a chechen who was wounded in georgia. That is a
Has warned that maintaing the ban may result in decelebrating or shut in production, which would be to the detriment of the nations livelihood. So many things to chew on. Many things to carry forward. We have a panel in front of us that i think is clearly knowledgeable and poised to speak to the issues if i think we will gain from the input this morning. And i think we will gain from her input their input this morning. I thank them for being here and allowing us to have the opportunity on this important discussion. Thank you for the thoughtful statement. Without the committee being hit by one of those politicfacts, i am told this is the first hearing in 25 years on this topic, so given that and the fact that we have more than 10 , a number of senators indicated they would like to make a short statement. I did not want to interrupt the Ranking Member, but when she was talking about where we have come in the past few years and production, i thank senator hoven. While as governor he did a
It has given iran breakout capability, which means that iran can produce now weapons grade material before we can detect it and act against it which is in fundamental conflict with the objective of the United States. That is iran will not get Nuclear Weapons, not the containment of a Nuclear Weapon once they get it. Preventionctive of may be lost. And in addition to 19,000 centrifuges, iran also constructed the first heavywater reactor for newtonian enrichment, another bomb four plutonium enrichment, another bomb fuel. There would not be this discussion and iran would not be at the table unless we imposed sanctions, because that is the only thing that responds to. I think if we take sanctions off the table, you take away the leverage, and assuming that your honey is sincere about this. He ran the Nuclear Program for ingyears prior to be elected president. Remember the iraniraq war. They were at war for eight years. It was basically a standoff. Nobody one. Said it waskhamenei like drink
Senator, thank you for joining us. Senator rob portman of ohio. Well get right to it. You have been in washington for some time since the 1990s and worked in the two bush white housees and former house member and been a senator since 2010, how would you say this beats ranks to other state of the unions over the years . Where does this rank . The president as he always does, but there were no big proposals and it was kind of the me an ambivolent speech. The state of the union is going great and he said its not going so well and therefore we need to make some changes in terms of takehome pay and longterm unemployed and he said i want to work with congress and then he said, by the way, im going to go around congress. As compared to other states of the union that i have listened to, the message was muddled and hard for me to really know what he was trying to communicate. I believe he is uncertain about what kind of second term president he wants to be and there are a couple of models and b
Really, the George Zimmerman case made some people feel like that, like African American lives dont mean as much as other people. Host we have been talking to paul butler, a law professor at georgetown, a graduate of yale and harvard. Under one hour. Welcome to brookings. I am the managing director here. We are delighted that we are joined today by senator murkowski. One of my favorite johnny cash songs growing up was called springtime in alaska. Chorus he sings, when its springtime in alaska, its 40 below. By that standard, it is downright balmy in washington dc. We are delighted that senator murkowski is here today. We dialed up some summer weather for her. Im sure she is wondering what the big deal is all about. The senator is the Top Republican on the Senate Energy committee. In thee largest state nation, nearly as big a territory west of the mississippi, she thinks an large terms about issues like energy. And she has a big track record on this issue. We are here to discuss the imp