Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
Fouryearold recently released in a hostage exchange. This is just over one hour. Ladies and gentlemen, i am grateful to welcome you today to the roundtable. I want to thank the very brave and courageous families who are with us today to discuss the hostages that have been kidnapped by hamas. To show how important this hearing is, i am just very grateful as chairman of the middle east subcommittee i have the opportunity to chair the committee but we are really fortunate to have the chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee and the Ranking Member, texas republican greg make. It is also significant that we have a Brandnew Congress member brandnew and all the way from rhode island. Hello and thank you for being here. We are very fortunate to have so many people. Before i begin, i want to let everybody know that we have a full house of members of congress very distinguished people from new york and texas but we also have congresswoman eliana ross layton who is visiting. Shes the foreman for
Billions of dollars in resources that they didnt have access to before the opening. Reporter challenger ted cruz who is also cuban american had a similar perspective. I think the president ought to instead be pushing for a free cuban. Reporter congresswoman ilyana layton agrees. Hes suppose to be the values we stand for, for our american ideals. Reporter congresswoman ross layton brought up a concern that during the trip she believes the regime will make a show of releasing Political Prisoners only to round them up after the president leave. As you heard, the president says he will address Human Rights Violations and those concerns during his visit. After the visit to cuba, the president will head to argentina to meet with the newly elected president. Natalia zea cbs4. The president s trip will be the first time a sitting u. S. Island in 8 years. Take 88 years. Take a look at these pictures showing calvin cool judge idg in december, 2014, president obama and raul castro announced the r
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