This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Let me start by making something Crystal Clear to the international committee. To the u. S. Foreign policy community, to the nations allies and adversaries. As the Committee Moves forward we will continue our work on behalf of the American People as we have done for more than two centuries. The world faces challenges as well as opportunities. This committee the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, its members and a staff play a Critical Role meeting the challenges america faces in National Security. And as i accept the chairmanship with great humility, thanks to the support of our members, thanks to the support of the Ranking Member and thanks to our dedicated and hardworking committee staff, we will continue to advance our values and National Interests on the global stage. My priority is simple, to strengthen americas diplomacy. To make sure our diplomats have the tools they need and congress provides the approp
This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Let me start by making something Crystal Clear to the international committee. To the u. S. Foreign policy community, to the nations allies and adversaries. As the Committee Moves forward we will continue our work on behalf of the American People as we have done for more than two centuries. The world faces challenges as well as opportunities. This committee the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, its members and a staff play a Critical Role meeting the challenges america faces in National Security. And as i accept the chairmanship with great humility, thanks to the support of our members, thanks to the support of the Ranking Member and thanks to our dedicated and hardworking committee staff, we will continue to advance our values and National Interests on the global stage. My priority is simple, to strengthen americas diplomacy. To make sure our diplomats have the tools they need and congress provides the approp
Okay go ahead. It doesnt have a clear lever and political mandates. The principal leader of the organization, the main political figure in result is the former president , Founding Member, a Founding Member of the wilson center, another program i laid there. The president has resisted calls by members of his party for impeachment of president dilma rousseff, thing that impeachment is not philosophical thing. Enough to cause. The causes are described in the constitution of brazil. He i think finally was able yesterday to unify the discourse a little bit by calling the governor of sao paulo and has abandoned this idea to try to call for new elections after obtaining the cancellation of the action which was a kind of not a viable opposition from the start. There was nothing particularly wrong with the way the president was elected. Thit should not be pursued. But president cardoso after the rallies that took place on sunday, had about 800,000 people in the streets. They were smaller, the
Good afternoon, one of the exciting things for the day and exciting moment and i have the honor of serving as the dean of school of Public Health, for all of you that are here for this exciting afternoon, im thrilled, welcome you. And also thrilled not to stand in the way of a great conversation, and so, im delighted to introduce our moderator, wellknown to all of you, im sure, michael, the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. Michael. Great. [applause] im michael and my job as moderator host today is basically to introduce chelsea and devi talk 20, 25 minutes and let you guys ask question and i sit and have a whole back and forth with them and i say now its time to go to reception and have some wine and thats my main job. Before i do my main job, i just want to say a couple of quick things, three quick things about this terrific book. First thing i want to say, as youll hear, im sure, this book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations aroun
Say is under the control of extremist groups like isil . Isil and daesh control the area in and around sirt. I couldnt give you exact percentage. The other places have transitory effect. Would you consider libya at this point a failed state . Yes, sir. Thank you all very much for your service. Thank you, mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses. I echo the comments about the appreciation for the service. The many times you have been before this committee. General rodriguez, i want to ask a couple of questions touching on each of your expertise about the training we do with foreign militaries and in africa i know the u. S. Military is a preferred training partner in many nations seek our assistance. I kind of like to have you talk about the success of those training efforts over the course of your three years in the position and what other nations do significant training of African Military . I view this as one of the most Cost Effective investments that we make. I would like to hear y