We intend to keep working with Council Members to acknowledge and respond appropriately to this serious incident. We dont so how members can cast doubt on this violation. I dont see that permissiveness. There was a letter sent by the president to senator coons where he says quote robust enforcement of sanctions related to irans nonnuclear activity will continue to be a critical, a critical, element of our policy. I will maintain powerful u. S. Sanctions under a host of Domestic Authority countering irans support for terrorism, human rights abuse, and the elicit sale or transfer of iranian weapons. I ask to place this in the record without objections. Powers and this letter because we know we have sanctions if you counter irans support for terrorism, human rights abuse, missile proliferation, elicit sale or transfer of iranian weapons. Those sanctions havent been changed. They will still continue. So i just, i just dont like this narrative that is coming out of here. I think it sends a
With 400 members of the house of representatives, including most democrats, to impose new and tougher sanctions on iran to give us a better negotiating position. And i were to keep the credible threat of force on the table the way obama has not. Not just in the dealings with iran but all countries around the world. Sell missiles to iran . Russia announced theyd transfer surfacetoair missiles to iran. That shows how misguided the proposal is that wed let iran continue to keep its Nuclear Capabilities and potentially be able to impose new sanctions once the regime that took years to put in place, began to unravel. Senator, wanted to ask you as a freshman lawmaker how are you received when talking about these issues . Did you ask any questions yourself of kerry . I think this question is not a matter of how long someone has been in the senate or congress how long someone has been serving the government, but who is right and wrong about this matter. Many senators and congressman, democrats
Building. The committee was set to meet beginning now 2 15 eastern, but its pushed back a half hour, to 2 45. Taking up legislation that will require congressional review of the nuclear deal with iran. This is White House Press secretary josh ernest said president obama wouldnt necessarily reject the bill proposed by bob corker which would require greater congressional review of a potential deal to curb Irans Nuclear program. The National Journal writes that corker and the new member of maryland reached a compromise monday night to alter parts of the bill in ways that ernest said the administration would consider accepting. The White House Briefing is online at cspan. Org. Were also covering the la times festival of books. Heres a preview. In los angeles is the annual Los Angeles Times festival of books. And book tv will be live, both april 18th and 19th from the university of Southern California campus. Nick is the deputy publisher of the la times. When and how did the la times start
Negotiating objective. This is straightforward improvement in the act and makes no changes in the language that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the committee. The only change is the is to move it from section 2a11 to the end of section 2b. The reason relates to effective enforcement in the rule of law dwoesh dwoesh negotiating objectives. In particular, the dispute settlement objectives require ustr to seek provisions that treat the United States principal negotiating objectives yawly with respect to the availability to resort to dispute settlement under the applicable, availability of equivalent remedies. As for principle trade objective, objectives. Therefore, by moving this from overall to principle, we do get the enforcement that i have been talking about at some time. Mr. Chairman let me just make this clear and ill be glad to ask mr. White the question. We have cleared with the ustr that this amendment is consistent with their negotiations of the trans pa sifb community a
Try it for two months and see what the difference is. Thousands a dying and sick because of the exposure to the deadly toxins at the work site. They issued a report called the 9 11 Commission Report that sold more copies than harry potter. Most read document in the history of our country. I nominated them for the national book. They didnt win. They should have. If we cant protect our president , our workers our people, then we cant do anything. Your department is the most Important Department in the entire government. You took 22 different agencies that werent talking to each other on intelligence and other areas and are forcing them to talk, share information and protect this country. Youre doing a great job. We havent been attacked again but people are trying. In the great state of new york they have tried 14 times. Because of your agency and the locals, we prevented it. Were preventing the attacks on our great country. Id like you to take your workers down to 9 11 and hear the stori