Question of knowledge of what happened. Today we are seeing something remarkable. I wish this legislation would have happened 10 or 20 years ago, but the fact is its happened, its going to have a major effect on the future. And many, many works of art that i use the expression the last prisoners of world war ii will finally find the Rightful Owners. I thank the senate and congress for what they are doing. Thank you, ambassador. Let me ask you do you believe the United States has lived up to our commitment as set forth in the declaration to make certain that claims to nazilooted art are resolved expeditiously and based on the facts and merits of the claim . The answer is yes and no. Yes, we have in many cases, no we havent in certain cases. There have been organizations and art thats been returned correctly, and theres been other art thats been, lets say, found a way to make either the statute of limitations or other factors stopping it. Very often its very difficult for a museum when t
Trafficking, dealing with migrants at sea, and u. S. Policy in the arctic. From the center for strategic and international studies, this is about one hour. Good morning everyone. Welcome to csis, im kathy hits director of the Security Program here and together with our partners at the u. S. Naval institute and daly who is taking a seat representing hit them today. Where happy to bring your Maritime Security dialog. Today were especially happy to be inviting you to speak on the u. S. Coast guard, admiral paul. That always connected come here about 17 months ago so this is a great update on everything that has happened for and with the coast guard. In the meantime which is both significant. He, as you may well know has extensive Operational Command experience in the pacific and the atlantic, and of of no, he was the federal on scene coordinator for the deepwater horizons bill and he directed there more than 47,000 responders, and 6500 vessels and 120 aircraft dealing and 120 aircraft dea
Battlefield injuries are survivable, but it has left the system overtaxed and overburdened. Since 2001. Only 40 of veterans receive their full benefits entitled to at the v. A. With unemployment at its highest, marital discord, threatening social support, and other problems to read it and undetected, they are looking towards social Services Agencies like the red cross in providing help. So the Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces Provide services at every stage of a Service Members military life four, during, and after, so if we look military,vices after it consists of providing veterans with veterans claims for benefits as a vso as well to those who seek to appeal, and that is mostly through our andless outreach project case coordination. We have volunteers at v. A. Reintegration still building courses in the form of reconnection workshops. So our veteran claims have common characteristics. Support who to peer have been trained for the Veterans Service officers, and the red cross re