Our foreign policy, security and economic priorities in ukraine, Central America, africa, asia and other regions. Treasurys International Programs are some of the most Cost Effective ways to reinforce Economic Growth at home and to respond to critical challenges abroad. Specifically, u. S. Leadership and International Financial institutions enables us to influence how and where ÷olk resources are deployed, often on a scale we cannot achieve through our bilateral programs alone. Its crucial we continue to have bipartisan support for these institutions to ensure our influence remains as strong today as its been over the past several decades. Treasury looks forward to continuing the dialogue with congress on the Important Role that the International Financial institutions play in the Global Economy. Especially as we implement the imf reform legislation and negotiate replenishments. Of several of the mdb windows that serve the worlds poorest countries. Thank you very much and i look forwa
Emergent treat, and i think in the more cochran strategy, first of all, we have all this state in this region, militias, revenge groups, sectarian groups, terroristic groups, criminal groups and so of course, libya talked about some groups we can say only in libya we have merely 300 militias. And when you go a little bit to this all this separatist groups dealing with all the terrorists, link it to all these terrorist groups and national organized crime. Pick in this time, on one hand, as the major role of terrorism and the terrorist groups, we have certainly daesh, as you see it, and is active in a lot of off can countries, in mali, bar ke barkina faso and others. We have a big bed of as my friend said, boko haram. We talk less about boko haram, but its one of the bad, very bad groups. And al shabab. The second point, when we focus on the terrorist groups in the moroccan approach, we never put transnational organized crime. We have in this region very important activity and what we le
The cattle upon a thousand hills. We confess that we often forget that righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to people. We thank you for your mercies that come to us new each day. May we live lives of gratitude because of your generous kindness. Today use our senators as instruments of your glory. Fill them with your peace, as they keep their minds fixed on you. Lord, bless our nation. Make it a beacon of freedom and righteousness in these challenging times. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell when the new majority resolved to get the senate back to work, we knew wed have to get committees functioning again first. We believe th
Petraeuss pleading guilty to mishandling classified information. I wanted to know if the white house has a broader reaction to his plea today . No, thats it. For more details about the investigation id refer you to the department of justice. J. C. , ill give you the last one. Reporter ive been married for 23 years. Congratulations to you and your wife. [ laughter ] reporter if i may change the topic to isil something we havent talked about in a while about a week ago, the head of egypt, presidency sisi, recommended a Strong Coalition of the willing in arab nations to combat isil in the region. Was there any discussion today over that Video Conference with the leaders, the misdemeanor many leaders, that that might be a good idea to join that coalition for really a universal coalition of the willing to fight asill . I dont have a detailed readout of the teleconference but well have something later on this afternoon. I can tell you as a general matter that the president is certainly very
And we are counting on countries in the region to take some responsibility for fighting isil and whether that is training local fighters, we know that there are some countries in the region that have committed to host Training Programs for members of the moderate Syrian Opposition so that they can be trained and equipped by our Coalition Partners so that they can take the fight to isil on the ground in their own country and we certainly would welcome those kinds of contributions to this broader effort. Thanks, everybody. The Supreme Court is set to hear the oral arguments in king v. Burwell, a case challenging the federal subsidies for the purchase of health care through the Affordable Care act. On the next washington journal, jess bravin of the wall street journal is here to talk about the case and the potential outcome. Then more about the Affordable Care act and subsidies with Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health news. Washington journal is live every morning and you can join the conve