Good evening everyone. Hello. Is everyone good tonight . I am the marketing director at politics and prose. We are here to talk with diana parcell. Im really delighted about it. How many people have gone to see theow Cherry Blossoms the past w days and got caught in a traffic over the past few days . That was bananas, and as washingtonians we know that they are glorious, but the secret is through veteran neighborhoods. Ecso thats the secret. But we actually have them. Before we get to the meat of the evening i want to do some housekeeping. To take pictures, do whatever you want but nothing reading or blaring or doing all those things. We are happy about having them and we are Live Streaming on youtube. Also some other housekeeping things if you like what you hear tonight, and we know that you do and we are so happy you are here in the store. We still have some juicy things coming up and a few other housekeeping things. Whats going to happen here im just going to introduce diana for a f
Little to enhance security in benghazi. It wasnt an intelligence failure. It is a policy and leadership failure on the part of the administration. With regard to iraq, intelligence including director clappers testimony at a january 29, 2014 hearing has been clear that iraq was vulnerable to the threat from isil. I encourage any member to read the intelligence if they are questions regarding the assessment about security in iraq and the rise of isil. It was clear in 2011 as u. S. Forces were withdrawing that iraq was vulnerable to resurgeance and we have seen the violence escalate during the administrations failed policy. This was easily predicted but we have stood by and watched as it has occurred. Again, this is a policy failure. Not an intelligence failure. Perhaps the most concerning aspect of the Foreign Policy is the counterterrorism strategy. I hear them touting the dissire of them being on the run. But nothing could be further from the truth. Al qaeda is on the run but they are
Quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Reid madam president . The presiding officer mr. Leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 779. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. Opposed no. The ayes appear to have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary, paul g. Byron of florida to be United States district judge for the middle district of florida. Mr. Reid i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of paul g. Byron of florida to be United States district judge for the middle district of florida, sig
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