Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strategic patience, as our witnesses yesterday unanimously agreed. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, james cunningham, having just served in kabul and left in december, said, quote, i think that under the circumstances, the timeline is probably too short and the rate of withdrawal is too steep. Former ambassador to both iraq and afghanistan, ryan crocker, said, i hope we will take the right decisions on force levels Going Forward based on conditions, not on calendars. Former commander of special
Low gas prices act distributed to every american. A stiptypical family could save 1100. They provide greater Economic Relief to low income households and Senior Citizens on fixed incomes. Even better they do not require a dime of taxpayer money. No one has to wrestle this tax cuts. Low prices patrolling are spending power. Residential heating down 1. 33 residential propane down 1. 40. Every dollar consumer save while fueling their cars and heating their home is one they can use to purchase other goods and services. This is all great news for American Consumers but not every one is celebrating lower energy prices. Crude is below break even prices. Russia iran and venezuela need Brent Crude Oil prices well past 100 per barrel to balance their budget. Mostly because brent crude prices have plummeted by 50 during the same time. On monday brent crude traded at 57 per barrel. Thats 58 less than its peak. Russia needs brent to trade around 107. Ie venezuela needs prices to go to 151. Around 5
Learned a really ugly lesson in over 10 years ago now. So you have to be able to do that. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Cooper. Hes not here. Ms. Graham. First, thank you very much for being here this morning. Detached a bit on other terrorist groups in the region. Could you please provide an update on hezbollah . Thank you. You guys can talk. I mean hezbollah is an iranian backed group. They are, i believe were still designating them as a terrorist organization, our state department. Hezbollah is deeply involved in syria. They are fighting in syria members of hezbollah are fighting and they are actually leading and doing some of these sort of what i would call sort of special operations Type Training of some of the syrian forces. Hezbollah is involved in yemen. Hezbollah certainly involved in lebanon and some of the disruption of things in that particular country. And hezbollah is involved in iraq as well. So members of hezbollah are in fact inside iraq fighting with what
Appeared on this campus all those decades ago that first mouse, that first message helped lay a foundation. And in the decades since, on campus uses like this, in Companies Campuses like this, in companies that are represented here, new people have come along, each laying down a block, one on top of the other. When future historians ask, who built this age, the answer will be, we all did. As americans. And im absolutely confident that if we keep at this, if we keep working together, in the spirit of collaboration, like all those innovators before us, our work will endure. Like the great cathedral. For centuries to come. And that cathedral will not just be about technology. It will be about the values that weve embedded in the architecture of the system. It will be about privacy and it will be about community. And it will be about connection. What a magnificent cathedral that all of you have helped to build. We want to be a part of that. And we look forward to workinging with you in the
In terms of primary care, rehab, you know, and that is that may prove to be a powerful consolidator of people with shared interests and wanting to do well, coupled with sort of the Outcome Measures that will be attended to that. Why dont we open up to questions from the audience. I believe we have some folks Walking Around with microphones. I see a hand up in the middle here. If you could please identify yourself, and if you have a particular panelist your addressing a question to, let us know. Im a primary care physician. I volunteer at the arlington free clinic. My question is for the gentleman from cedarssinai. We heard earlier that cedarssinai is not going to be part of the network for any of the care plants that are going to be offered on the California Exchange. Right. I was wondering how that is for you, and if youre planning to make any changes . Yeah, i appreciated the shout out earlier in the program. [laughter] but i think the question is a good one. Because again, a couple