You know who served his country with honor in iraq and had served in afghanistan. And i remember our meeting last spring with senator corker. My democrat counterpart Elliott Engle and i had put together a bipartisan house version of the Taylor Force Act which we will be marking up in a few weeks. And i want to thank him again for taking the time to address us here today. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Stuart force. [ applause ] good afternoon. And thank you for chairman royce. And to the Hudson Institute. As youll notice very quickly, im not an xapt in any of the subject matter today. Im here as an unofficial representative of a group that no one ever wants to be a part of. Families of victims of terror. We lost taylor in a palestinian terror attack in israel about a year and a half ago, and we immediately became members of that horrific club. He was a west point grad and as chairman royce said two combat tours in iraq and afghanistan and brought his troops home safely from both tours. Comp
And we have with us here mr. Stewart force, mike mccall many of you know as chairman of the Homeland Security committee. Congressman brad sherman from los angeles. Congressman hank johnson is with us as well. What i thought i might do here is let me say a few words of introduction, if i could on behalf of mr. Stewart force, because i wanted to share with him how much we admire his work, the work he has done, the work his wife robbie has done to try to ensure that no other family has to endure the pain that their family has endured. Their son taylor force was a Great American patriot. He was a west point graduate, as you know, who served his country with honor in iraq, and had served in afghanistan. And i i remember our meeting last spring with senator corker. My democrat counterpart eliot engel and i have put together a bipartisan house version of the Taylor Force Act which we will be marking up in a few weeks. And i want to thank him again for taking the time to address us here today.
If i could have everyones attention at this time and ask everybody to take their seats. If we might, im congressman ed royce, i chair the Foreign Affairs committee. [ applause ] and we have with us here mr. Force, mike mccall, many of you know is chairman of the Homeland Security committee. [ applause ] congressman brad sherman from los angeles. Congressman hank johnson, as well. What i thought i might do here is let me say a few words of introduction if i could on behalf of mr. Stewart force because i wanted to share with him how much we admire his work, the work he has done, the work his wife has done to try to ensure that no other family has to endure the pain that their family has endured. Their son, taylor force was Great American patriot. He was a west point graduate who served his country with honor in iraq and served in afghanistan. And i remember our meeting last spring with senator corker. My democrat counter part elliot engel and i have put together a bipartisan version of t
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Good afternoon and welcome to the washington institute. I am the executive director and i am delighted to welcome all of you to this very special event. Before i begin if i could pleasa ask everyone to turn everything on silence because we are broadcasting live on cspan so please watch your language and speak in clear tone so people around the world can hear usngua today. To get the message of todays discussion out far and wide. It isnt often that one can find the publication of a new book to an International Event or i should say it isnt often one can arrange an International Referendum in a friendly country to be timed perfectly with the publication of a new book. But it turns out that today we have a confluence of. We have the referendum in turkey that although the results and process were provocative and controversial and im sur ensure will hear more about that. The result seems to be to elevate the existing precedent into an even higher and more elevated position and one that migh