And minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Poe, for five minutes. Mr. Poe thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the president , quote, avoid the battle, complains, and misses opportunities. Those were the words of leon panetta president obamas former secretary of defense and c. I. A. Director in 2011. At the time panetta, along with military commanders and joint chiefs of staff, recommended that the United States leave 24,000 troops in iraq to prevent that country from falling apart and becoming chaos. According to panetta the administration was so eager to rid itself of iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve american influence in our interests. So the president ignored the advice of his own secretary of defense and top commanders and pooled troops out of iraq in 2011. The timing just before the 2012 president ial leaks to me appe
So why isnt it easier to finance these huge need for infrastructure and that someone unless countries. What is the seem to be a kind of chronic i would not useecular stagnation but the difficulty in getting the firms that actually exist to do their work. And anything and anything else you want to say. Thank you. Thank you for a very inspirational talk. I do think you know, when the music changes and you have a different dance i have different dances that come out of this dance around infrastructure spending. The reserve has shown that we had a long time for the public capitol stock essentially infrastructure has come down as a percent of gdp in low income countries, Something Like 40 percentage points, 20 25 years . So it is not a shortterm phenomenon that Infrastructure Investment i think it has been a longterm phenomena. We have tried to rely for a long time on the private sector, private business to deliver the infrastructure and i think now what we are realizing what is really impo
At the same time we have is very auguste group the said forcing companies to provide a backdoor to encryption is going to result in a lot of unintended possible consequences including some of our companies will lose a competitive advantage because, for example, if we expand to include encrypted apps that it only would apply to our companies and, therefore, if our companies have to provide a set of backed away to get to this information and Foreign Companies who in the marketplace dont then you at a competitive disadvantage. They are a lot of issues that we do have two way. Speaking of that i understand you to say that is just one of the things on the table . Are that he said at another form perhaps but you think it should be expanded to include encryption apps . I dont know whether i said that but if i said it, im smarter today than i was then. I think thats something that folks are discussing but i dont know what that answer is. Thats why we havent come to dealing with a proposal. Wer
Messaging app. Contact me there. So our task to find needles and a nationwide haystack becomes complicated by the fact that the needle goes invisible. We cannot break strong encryption. People watch tv and think the bureau can do a lot of things. We cannot break strong encryption. Even if i get a court order under the Fourth Amendment to intercept that communication, i will get nothing. The needle remain dark to me. Isil does something al qaeda would never imagine, they task people. Kill someone, and we will see if youre really a believer. These people react in ways that are very difficult to predict. What you saw in boston was flashed a bang being very close. You had a guy in touch and then encrypted way. He woke up one morning and decided he would go kill somebody. Thank her this we were able to confront him. They had to use their weapons. That is an example of the applicability of this. If you combine the blindness with this broad reach. And we face a challenge if not seen before. T
I would like to continue to discuss the indignity. Involved in terms of who your friends are. Look around this chamber. You will see to the far left and the far right you have applause. Mr. Tsipras i think fidel castro wrote you a letter of congratulations on your magnificent triumph. It seems you are surrounding yourself with the wrong friends. [laughter] [applause] please continue. May i say coming else about dignity. . The dignity of others in europe. If you do not like the people, it is not extraneous Financial Institutions who will pay for this. Is going to be stained with 24 billion euros, it will be poland and france it seems to me we must look at those peoples dignity, people another eu countries. Mr. President , i would also like to bring up the principal, the concept is in dire straits. You also know what the situation is of the people in bulgaria. How can you tell work area in terms of solidarity, how can you tell the people in bulgaria in terms of solidarity, that five eu c