Room. Our going to introduce Panel Moderator and let him theyduce the panelists so can introduce themselves. I am very pleased to introduce the director of the heritage foundations Margaret Thatcher center for freedom. His key areas of special place of specialization include the United Nations and the role of Great Britain and europe in the u. S. Led alliance against international terrorism. He was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons in dailys. By the london telegraph. And a leading authority on transatlantic relationships, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar british. Britain leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly soughtafter. He received his doctorate degree from yelp universe from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining u
Include the Anglo American special relationship, United Nations and the role of Great Britain and europe in the u. S. Led alliance against international terrorism. He was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons in the u. S. By the london daily telegraph. And a leading authority on transatlantic relations, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar iraq to u. S. British leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly sought after for his advice. He received his doctorate degree from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining us in such extremely cold weather. Brutally cold weather. It is more like moscow and moscow than washington. We will be talking about the russians later. [laughter] and we have two superb washington foreignpolicy ex
Transatlantic relations, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar iraq to u. S. British leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly sought after for his advice. He received his doctorate degree from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining us in such extremely cold weather. Brutally cold weather. It is more like moscow and moscow than washington. We will be talking about the russians later. [laughter] and we have two superb washington foreignpolicy experts with us today. You will see both rebecca and michael frequently on cable news shows here in washington on a regular basis. Would like to introduce rebecca first, a National Security fellow. Rebecca specializes in nuclear deterrence, Missile Defense and counter proliferation. She has served
Foundations Margaret Thatcher center for freedom. His key areas of specialization include the United Nations and the role of Great Britain and europe in the u. S. Led alliance against international terrorism. He was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons in the u. S. By the london daily telegraph. And a leading authority on transatlantic relationships, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar iraq to u. S. British leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly soughtafter. He received his doctorate degree from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining us in such extremely cold weather. Really cold weather. It is more like moscow and washington. We will be talking about the russians later. And we have two superb washington foreignp
Witnesses today, and ill save the introductions. I know there are a couple introductions that will be made from up here. This morning well go ahead with our Opening Statements, myself and senator cardin, and then were honored to have both the chairman and the Ranking Member of the whole committee here. So senator barrasso, senator carper, and then i understand senator cardin, you have an introduction to make also. Yes. All right. Well do that. Lets recognize first senator carper, because hes going to be coming back and doing his a little bit later. Just very briefly, welcome to this important hearing. I want to thank our chair and Ranking Member for pulling us all together and giving us a chance to say something. I have a statement. I would like to ask unanimous consent it appear in the record. And if i have a chance to come back and give it live later this morning, i will do that. Again, its good to see you all. Thank you for joining us. This is important. Important stuff. Thank you,