Establish by the state is not used anywhere else in the statute except in provisions that are serving that purpose. Now, in terms of why would congress do this because this is the question. Why would congress think to do Something Like this . The condition achievement of goals on state cooperation. They did that on medicaid. They offered a lot of inducement on medicaid. Because congress cant come comen dear, everyone knew that congress could make states a really good offer but it had to be an offer. The state that refused to accept the Medicaid Expansion as the statute was written would leave the poorest and most Vulnerable People in that state without any help under the medicaid program. Thats the way the statute was written. Conditioning a whole lot of the statutes goals on states willingness to go along. They would do that with medicaid where a lot more is at stake. Why wouldnt they do it here . Congress has done this before. Congress has routinely said tax credits or other benefits
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey
And that is that we went in with zero investment. And now, if you fast forward to where we are today, we actually cargo has a very robust animal feed business. We import u. S. Products into the vietnamese market. And, over that course of time weve also through our investments and through working in those communities, weve actually built our nearly our 70th school on the ground in vietnam. And so what we can say is that theres not only the power of trade, but theres the power of u. S. ÷uf of businesses to engage in whats known as commercial day diplomacy. so, in the case of cuba, cuba is alkx i ratjt when we normalize relations, we would have to ensure that we would gain the same access in cuba that the other wto members have. We would also have the pntr as part of that, as well. I would say two things about vietnam on the hill. That, to make it different from cuba, one is there was not an active proembargo vietnamese lobby, unlike cuba. fb secondly, the senators brought in their desir
Hypothesized a legacy project it. But i think were getting pushed off into side panels about lifting the embargo on capitol hill right now. Help me. Im an optimist. And i believe optimism keeps us going on the right path. Why wont a bill come out of committee. Leave it to the room to w judge whether a bill is going to come out of a republican controlled senate. Let me follow up on that. I mean my. Yq reading of the tea leaves is, as your conclusion, that congress is two views, some strongly in favor of lifting some strongly opposed toq2n the president , the steps hes already taken. And, if you had to bet, i think you would bet where youve placed your money, which is unlikely that there will be legislative action on this to either roll back what the president is doing or to advance policy further. My question to you is, in your initial remarks, you suggested that as a legal matter, the president has full, legal discretion toc to take very expansive steps. My question is do you believe t