Panelists in the most difficult position of any panel in any event which is standing between resistance and the bar. But there is extraordinary substance on this panel, and the intent is to turn us forwardlooking. I would like to turn over to ambassador john ordway, our partner in kazakhstan. John, it is an honor and a pleasure to have you here as our moderator. Amb. Ordway thank you very much. We are facing the future with an urgent set of problems and to prove they are urgent we are going to have a little time to deal with them. Let me just say i really liked from the beginning what bill perry said about the challenge of this separation of the variables and what we are going to do with this panel is separate those variables and address them separately. I would like to recall what the general said that he is optimistic, and the time to renew the work we have been talking about is not somewhere over the hills. There is it is not over the hills, but i expect there is still a lot of terr
And then a British Parliament committee on how scotland would be impacteded if the uk leaves the eu. And the conduct of irs commission is looked into. Peter neffenger testified about the agencys recent surge in wait times at t. S. A. Security checkpoints in u. S. Airports. He appeared at a House Homeland Security hearing. It is just over two hours. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting to examine the security challenges brought forth by increased passenger screening, checkpoint wait times. Before i begin, i would like to take a moment of silence for the victims and their family of egyptair 804. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Today we face a crisis at our airports. We have all read the headlines. Threehour long security lines, 438 American Airline passengers stranded overnight in chicago ohare, travelers from atlanta, charlotte and alaska waiting forever to be screened causing missing flights and further delays. More than 3,000
The question is what is the actual capability. They have not done anything to thecate that they consider u. S. Anything other than high precipitation. Other question struggle there, and the red. Stephanie from nuclear intelligence. From what you were saying, are you saying that this move towards weapons that are lower isld that blurs the line then necessary step towards getting to where we do not have it strikes mens as a very hairy proposition if we can make it through without a nuclear war. That is a very big if. Is it likely to lead other countries in this direction . A see it do you see it as transitional phase . Or something that could lead us into nuclear war . Or both . Right here. To a policy that Nuclear Weapons are only used for deterrence of a Nuclear Attack which is what the president said we were getting too, with that change our requirements at all and lead maybe to not have the need for some of these weapons . Wasndy, the first question for you. Amy, why dont you take on
And thats what they are doing. Not as though they are hiding the intent. They combine that with the rhetoric death to america, death to israel. Let me let you respond. Mr. Countryman i dont believe iran ever hit its intent to continue developing Ballistic Missile, nor has it slowed down doing so. We have a situation now where the Security Council what can we point to where we can say the Security Council now is taking action against irans Missile Program . None, that i can see. Mr. Countryman i dont focus on the rhetoric, i focus on the active effort to deny the export of technology from advance countries to iran. I understand that irans interpretation is different from ours. Rep. Royce weve now given russia, or weve given beijing the ability to interpret this differently. We have forever now a less effective constraints on irans Missile Program than we had before. And, on top of that, we now see in thesertiveness International Community and we dont see the pushback from the United Sta
The speaker pro tempore the yeas are 362 and the nays are 45. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Fitzpatrick, to suspend the rules h. R. 5606 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. To clerk h. R. 5606, a bill facilitate to assist in the fighting of terrorist activities and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the spe