One of the issues that does concern me is our national defense. I have washed us around the world i challenge some people. Is there any country in the world that we have a stronger relationship with today than we had six years ago . I said that, too. But i was corrected. Somebody said iran. Somebody else said to cuba. Its about that. A while back i was in egypt and they told me 98 of the threats that all the relation together with egypt have been suffered by the Foreign Policy of this president. There are good people that we can work with. There are moderate muslims. General sisi made the strongest statement from the muslim world ive ever heard and hes a man we can work with and we need to do so and thats a piece of what we need to do to put america back into safety and security. I will challenge the folks that speaker today and those that aspire to the oval office, lay out a plan force. Lay out the plan to defeat radical islamic jihad. [applause] lay out their plans so it isnt some ki
Regime that systematically denies political and Economic Freedom or do we preserve normal relations for postcastro transition so we can use them as a lever to induce a broad profound and irreversible reforms that will effectively liberate cuban people . Inexplicably president obama chose to matter of course i hasten to add that this is not a partisan debate. There is strong bipartisan consensus is strong for the regime but is moving toward democracy. Although president obama is moving quickly to force that part of the leverage by normalizing diplomatic ties he can respect opposition to his plan to lift the economic embargo with cuba. One misconception of the debate is the socalled helmsburton act as the consolidator of the act of 1986. There is a misconception that this codifies the embargo. That act drafted originally by the democratic senator Robert Menendez is a formula for establishing normal trade and even a two cuba in the postcastro era. It merely anticipates a friendly transiti
The six democrats voted last year in favor of this measure, most of them have left congress. There arent enough democrats to really that republicans can rely on to pass this over republican objections. Youve reported and others have reported the white house issuing a veto threat on this legislation. What would happen in the senate . The path in the senate is very uncertain. Mitch mcconnell hasnt given much indication on whether he feels it could pass the senate if it is scheduled and whether it could be scheduled. The senate obviously moves much scloe slower than the house. So even if a vote was held there it could be weeks or months before they go forward and they likely dont have the votes to override any president ial veto which could temper expectations in the senate they even vote on a bill. Follow lauren frenchs reporting on Twitter Twitter laurenfrench and politico. Com. Thanks for the update. Thanks for having very on. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on
Screeria nigeria. Later remarks by the chinese premier at the World Economic forum followed by president obama speaking at boise state university. Wednesday state and local education officials from around the country testified about changes to the no child left behind act which was signed into law by president george w. Bush in 2002. They appeared before the Senate Education Committee Led by lamar alexander, a former education secretary under president george h. W. Bush. This is 2 1 2 hours. I am the chairman and patty minded me she is a teacher so we will start on time. Welcome. Senate committee on Health Education labor and pensions will please come to order. This morning we have a hearing on fixing no child left behind testing and accountability. There is a lot of interest in this hearing. We have heard from people around the country ever since last week when we put a draft working paper up on the website. We have a lot of people in the hall. I would say to those in the hall who are
Dont understand which is the disparate impact. In other words, is it the provision that causes more proposals to go to more proposals to go to the housing or is it the provision that causes more approval of more. Youve about got to know what youre shooting at. The disparity tied to the practice is just the first step in the appal sis. The second step is whats the justification justification. Ill ask it the last time and let you get on. Youre saying you need justification, but for what . Which is the bad thing to do . Not promote low Income Housing . You say whats causing the bat effect, but whats causing the bad effect . It may be neither because the government may say in the first case, well this is our justification and that may be a just fi indication that holds up. The government may say in the second case, well thats our justification and that may be a justification that hold up. Do you think that a private developer would ever be found guilty of disparate impact because he owns a