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Departments u. S. Special representative for iran, brian hook at this Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing. This hearing will come to order. Welcome, everyone. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on the Trump Administrations iran policy. I thank the witness for appearing today. I now recognize myself for the purpose of making an Opening Statement. I will then turn it over to the Ranking Member mr. Wilson. All members will have five days to submit questions and extraneous materials for the record. Mr. Hook, thank you very much for testifying today. This committee has many questions related to u. S. Policy toward iran. We welcome the opportunity to hear directly from the administration. In recent weeks, relations between the United States and iran have grown increasingly tense. This committee is fully aware of the many challenges posed by tehran. Iran plays a destabilizing role in the region by propping up Bashar Al Assad in syria and supporting terrorist groups. Iran als
Kharkiv batra, reporting for duty his real name is mizuho kobayashi, but batra fits better with his online persona. He creates video blogs. The 31 year old previously served in the Japanese Armed forces, or the selfDefense Forces as theyre known here. He still feels a connection with the military and is voluntarily seeking to recruit more young people. His sign reads would you go to the selfDefense Forces . What have you heard about what its like in the army . Its really strict. Im not a morning person. I dont want to get up so early. Its hard work. They even have to go out when it snows, and sleep in a tent. The training is really tough. People rarely say yes. Young people often dont know much about the selfDefense Forces. And theyre not interested. Theyre mostly indifferent, neither positive nor negative. At the headquarters of the Armys First Division in tokyo, new recruits come to swear an oath of allegiance. But the chairs are largely empty. The army is especially short of ground
More aid for ukraine something opposed by some hard right house republicans. Heres Senate Majority leader chuck schumer. It has been a day full of twists and turns. The American People can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no government shutdown. Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship and we are glad Speaker Mccarthy has finally heeded our message. In the end, more democrats supported this bill in the house than republicans. Proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. I want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriators. Madam president Susan Collins and leader mcconnell. Our Bipartisanship Work in the senate set the tone for the bill we are about to pass. Our bipartisanship made this possible. It showed the house we had to act. We will keep the government open for 45 days with a clean cr at current Funding Levels and we avoided all of the extreme, nasty and harmful cuts maga wanted.