Effectively fight isis and how will the Central Government in baghdad supplied military equipment directed to the kurds . At it prevent the transfer of equipment when i was ambassador. I dont have the statistics but the kurds believe that it has. They cite only 25 of hundreds of m. Rapp Armored Vehicles that have been provided to them and there are some pretty good reasons why we are careful in what we give them. The point is they are fighting. They are the allies of baghdad and a lot of these weapon systems and are not a threat to baghdad but they are a threat to isis. We will go to tom amory of minnesota. Thank you mr. Chairman i will try to be brief. I apologize for going back and forth. There seems to be a bunch of things going out of the same time. I dont want to cover old ground but im afraid i might touch on it a little bit. My understand first we are here because the president has requested renewed authorization for military force and it seems everything that i have read in eve
Has been putting out a lot of the wait time data as part of being very transparent about this. There has been concern that at the facility level they may not be looking at exactly the same data that we were releasing. We wanted to be very careful that we didnt have facility or Network Directors appear to be misleading their congressionals by saying, well, this is where we are and then having this National Data release Say Something different. So there was a caution put out to wait until we had distributed the data to them that was going to be released, and i will say it was an illworded document and it was followed immediately by a statement of clarity. This was not intended that they could not talk to congressionals, to just hold off until they had the data that they could talk to them about and ensure they were getting the right data. You know, we get terribly compromised if we dont if weve got one person saying one thing and another saying another, and we want to make sure as we mov
Recent developments in north korea most notably the february 12, 2013 nuclear test and the december 12, 2012 missile test highlight the growing threat that north korea poses to the United States, our allies and friends in the region, and the increasing dangers of severe instability on the Korean Peninsula. Given this growing threat i believe that this committee needs to take a close look at current u. S. Policy towards north korea; evaluate its effectiveness; and identify any midcourse corrections or new measures that are required to get our north korea policy right. I understand that as we convene this hearing this morning that up in new york the United Nations Security Council is sitting down, right now, to consider a resolution that imposes additional sanctions on north korea. This new Security Council resolution, based on a u. S. China draft, includes tough new sanctions intended to impede north koreas ability to develop further its Illicit Nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs. T
Good morning. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine senators. I think, senator grassley, we can get going. First off i want to thank senator paul for having a filibuster which kept everybody still in town so we can have a quorom to talk about guns that may not have been his number one reason for doing it, but we take ancillary benefits wherever they come from. Last week we all had the opportunity to talk about legislation before the Committee Regarding gun violence in america. We gave our speeches. And i hope we could make significant progress. Earlier this week i was joined by senator collins, senator durbin, gillibrand, and senator kirk in the introduction revised legislation to combat the straw purchasing and trafficking of firearms. Others have joined us in that bill including senator clow chew char, senator king, and ill plan when we get on it ill offer a substitute we find the provisions with the text of the leahycollins bill. I reach out to the senators, t
The effectiveness of past u. S. And u. N. Sanctions. This hearing has been on the same day the u. N. Security council not to impose tougher sanctions on north korea for its recent Nuclear Tests. This is just over two hours. This hearing on north korea will come to order. On february the 12th, north korea conducted its third test, his most powerful test today. A Nuclear Weapon, a smaller weapon because north korea is working on miniaturizing a sweatband in order to place it on the head of an icbm. This followed decembers launch of a three stage Ballistic Missile. Weve had test after test, broken promise after broken promise and successive administrations, both republican and democrat have clung to an unrealistic hope that one day, north korea will negotiate away its Nuclear Programs. If they hope in a 1994, many senior members here shaer when they pass agreement in 18 years ago with north korea. But during that whole period of time we attempted to engage, we found instead that north kor