my name is dwight bashir and i m the director of outreach and policy at the commission. and i know many of you are looking forward to this week s the irfa summit, which has officially got underway. we have with us the co chair of the irfa summits congressional advocacy day. so i wanna invite him, just for a minute, to say a few words. amjad khan. [applause] amjad: good afternoon everyone and welcome. this is an amazing event. on behalf of the international religious freedoms summit on the steering committee, ambassador sam brownback and dr. katrina lantos swett. we welcome all of you also to this week of the summit. one of the reasons that we planned to do this event was the amazing synergy between this amazing body uscirf and civil society and, you know, here in congress on capitol hill, why it s so important to do it here today. we have coalitions, multifaith coalitions, over 70 organizations, dozens of faith communities speaking for each other on the hill today. over 50 li
dwight: good afternoon and welcome everyone to the u.s. commissions briefing called the impact on international religious freedom. my name is dwight bashir and i m the director of outreach and policy at the commission. and i know many of you are looking forward to this week s the irfa summit, which has officially got underway. we have with us the co chair of the irfa summits congressional advocacy day. so i wanna invite him, just for a minute, to say a few words. amjad khan. [applause] amjad: good afternoon everyone and welcome. this is an amazing event. on behalf of the international religious freedoms summit on the steering committee, ambassador sam brownback and dr. katrina lantos swett. we welcome all of you also to this week of the summit. one of the reasons that we planned to do this event was the amazing synergy between this amazing body uscirf and civil society and, you know, here in congress on capitol hill, why it s so important to do it here today. we have coalitio
Washington, d. C. This morning, and he blamed House Speaker john boehner for the Government Shutdown. Obama the only thing that is preventing all that from happening right now, today, in the next five minutes is that Speaker John Boehner wont even let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesnt want to anger the extremists in his party. Thats all. Thats what this whole thing is about. We have complete coverage of the Government Shutdown. Libby casey is on capitol hill. But we begin with Mike Viqueira at the white house, good afternoon, mike. So did the president say anything that we havent heard already today . Reporter stephanie, im afraid were still in the shouting stage and the two sides are talking past each other. Notwithstanding the president was talking face to face with all four of the republicans and democrats in the house and senate. To call out Speaker John Boehner if that senate bill, the socalled clean cr with no Strings Attached it would pass. The problem about john b
Case to the American People about the federal government shutdown. Here are the latest headlines. Plt participate spoke a short time ago. He blamed the shutdown on a republican obsession with repealing his Health Care Reform law. The house and senate are back in session. House republicans plan to keep submitting bills to restart popular programs. We have two reports on the latest developments. Libby casey is live on capitol hill, but we begin with Mike Viqueira at the white house. Mic, yesterday the president brought out bankers, said he saw him speak from a construction plant. What is his message. Well, there are 800,000 federal employees out of work, and this Construction Business goes has some business that goes away because of the shutdown. That has an effect on all of the businesses that support it in the surrounding area. But he was really there to blast john boehner saying time and time again if he could just bring democrats into this process, then the bill would pass. There is
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