Our position on Energy Exports from iraq is very clear. We support getting as much oil out of iraq as possible and on International Markets from north to south. And we also support doing that in a way that reenforces the overall stability of all raiira regions. When people ask, theres legal risk for taking oil without an agreement. We work very hard to broker an agreement and had an agreement on the table that was a very good one as early as four months ago that would have gotten all the oil out of the kurdish flowing and on to International Markets and from the south to the krg. Foye a number of reasons and which is that were in the middle of a high political season in iraq. It was an election season and that was april 30th. I remain confident in the process of forming new government we can work with all sides to have a solution to this important issue. The budget being debated in parliament, about a 120 billion budget, about 17 billion for the kurdistan region and we want to make sur
The president , the speaker, lots of people have been talking about Immigration Reform and whats going on in the southern border. Here is a bit of Speaker Boehner from this week. [video clip] we have a true humanitarian crisis underway with children caught in the middle. Unfortunately, its a crisis of the president s own making. His actions gave false hope to children and their families that if they enter the country illegally, they would be allowed to stay. Our priorities are clear. Take care of these children, return them safely home to their home countries, to their families and secure the border. I sent a letter to the president last month fling out some specific actions that he should take to address the crisis, including sending in the National Guard. The National Guard is uniquely qualified to address these types of humanitarian crises and utilizing their expertise would free up Border Agents to focus on their job of securing the border. Now, the president said yesterday he woul