An immediate risk to the countrys National Security. We want to know what your thoughts on what the president had to say and is dealing with priority change means anything to you. And independent 2027488002 and send us a tweet cspan is our handle and email at cspan. Org. Phone lines are open and start dialling in. New york times says it this way, obamas Climate Change with far reaching effects. President obama Climate Change constitutes a serious risk to National Security and it will impact how our military defends our country. So we need to act and need to act now. After all, isnt that the true hallmark of leadership. When youre on deck standing your watch you stay sreupbl lent you and plan for every contingency. If you see storm clouds gathering or dangerous shoals ahead, you dont sit back and do nothing. You take action to protect your ship and keep your crew safe. Anything else is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty. So too with Climate Change. Denying it or refusing to deal wi
Its not a shia problem but a specific problem of iranian they are no longer proxies but extensions of the iranian irregular military forces and those are the militants that are leading the charge into ramadi, which is unacceptable. And they help get us off track by launching the attack on tikrit on their own which then failed and we had to bail them out, which was an enormous positive turning point for us because it demon stated the limitations of the ability of the iraqieycontrolled fight to the enemy. The benefit we gain from that, we move many steps back. If these groups are successful in taking part of ramadi when the troops we backed, failed, it will demonstrate the viability in a catastrophic way that will undermine the independence that the i. S. S. Might have and be a significant extension of Iranian Military power not just military influence in the region. Senator ernst my time is way over. Senator mccain i hope you will have them over to your house for dinner. Before i turn t
Dolley madison who presided other the first inaugural ball in 1809. What did we think about Dolley Madison and the impact she had . Its taking us back. Way back. Way back. Dolley madison was criticized. People criticized here, didnt they, and thought she was too fancy and too much into fashion and too aristocratic, not democratic enough. Not democratic enough, but you could come to Dolley Madisons parties as long as you were appropriately dressed, so for their time very democratic. They did that in versailles as long as you were properly dressed. When you think Dolley Madison grew up as a quaker, so when she married james madison, she broke from this quaker background, so a woman who had been very demurely dressed suddenly had this ability to really just blazen out in amazing clothes and shes fond of reds and yellows and turbans, maybe a nod to that quaker cap. Shes able to fulfill this dazzling vision you have to wonder if this is what she longed to look like as a little girl. Yeah. A
Terrorist Organization Currently subject to negotiation that cuba is hosting for the u. S. Is playing a role company and thepe government, correct . Thats correct and we are notconflic accompanying that have the special envoy nowt and its also the longestrunning civil conflict in the hemisphere. My i dont want to get ahead of myself but if that negotiation works out positively and we are then, we have the ability of the two continents all wa americans without work, without civil war and without war between nations that would be pretty unusual in the history of these two continents wooden it . It would be an historic achievement. C and it would be pretty unusual wars were civil wars in asia wars are civil wars intw asia and sadly wars are civil wars in europe. Trde you talked in your opening testimony that thing greasing theeements trade in the americas the majority of the american trade agreements agreements are with the nations in the americas. Theres more trade between be the eight n
I was not the chairman when i came up and it is not permanent work. When i became chairman of h. R. Staffing were taken to make sure be redoing more collaborative vacation in psp like are you still advance it not . It is not within right now. It is in part in the spirit it is completely positive and we have been working with Stakeholder Community through an Advisory Panel on the issue of the single window and imports. We are running a pilot that will come out in a few and we are trying to get it right. We are having this exact collaborations. Okay, my time is out. Ive got one other question, but i will submit the question to you in writing. I thank you can yield back. A chair now recognizes the gentleman said from texas for five minutes. I think the chair. A special welcome to a former house colleague. Good to see you again. I want to talk about nanotechnology. As in 1985 graduate of Rice University in houston, texas we are proud that two of our professors robert crowe and Richard Smal