This subcommittee hearing last about an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. The subcommittee on National Parks force and public life will now come to order. The subcommittees meeting today to testimony on h. R. 2420 the nationales museum of the americn latino act. And a Committee Rule, any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chair and the ranking minority member. Therefore ask unanimous consent that all of the members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if their civic to the clerk by 5 p. M. Today. During no objection, so ordered. In addition due to the broad interest in todays hearing i would like to askn unanimous consent that allo interested members be allowed to join us and participate on the dais. Before we get started i would like to take a point of personal privilege and have a moment of silence for our friend, our colleague, defender of justice and equality and humanity, mr. Elijahel cummings. Thank you all so much. Thank you for attending th
You have an x factor that has been eliminated from this equation of what we may or may not do in syria. As a consequence of that action. Thank you. Thank you for the excellent work when you are doing. Turkey doesnt want to become part of our combat operations because isil has hostages from turkey. At the same time, turkey has become the destination for the oil which has been captured by the isil army in both iraq and in syria. Its upwards of 1 million to 3 million a day, 300 million to a billion dollars in the course of a year. The smuggled oil has become the life blood of the isil army. Talk a little bit about turkey and what are efforts are going to be to shut that down. Without that money, they dont have the money to produce hollywoodstyle videos. They dont have the money to pay soldiers. They dont have the money to take care of cities and towns they are taking over. Talk about what we have to do with turkey to just get them to shut this down. Senator, its a very, very relevant ques
Foley. Thats not islam. Islam is not isil. Increasingly, all of the voices in the region are really starting to feel that they have a need to speak out and reclaim islam. Thats one of the most important things that could come out of this. Were working on ways to do that. So isil is not a state, obviously. It isnt remotely like a state. What we need to do is make that more clear. So let me share with you two important things. The home of mecca, which by the way are in the target scale of is isis, these are islams most holy cities, they days ago said of these murderers they are enemy number one of islam. That comes from the grand mufti of saudi arabia. Today, saudi arabias top clerical council, all 21 members, the only institution in the kingdom of saudi arabia that is authorized to issue fatlas, invoking mohammed, using the words of the koran itself, today they said isil are killers, they are thugs, they should be singled out and punished as apostates and made an example. They were not
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