I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.
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With President Trump live tuesday at 7 00 eastern as he holds a Campaign Rally in sunrise, florida, his first their sins changing his residency from new york to florida in late october. Live coverage on cspan. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Dale moore, he is with the American Farm bureau federation. He serves as their executive vice president. Thank you so much for having me on. If you are a farmer in america, what is her debt situation like these days . Right now, farmers have over 416 billion in debt. A little over half of that is real estate. That leaves about 159 billion Million Dollars that is shorterterm debt, buying equipment getting crops in the ground. That is a lot of debt for folks to have to deal with. If you look at maps of these a situation where farmers are hardest hit, the, midwest toward the west some of the hardest hit areas. Absolutely. It is one of those things and it tends to be a little bit cyclical. Everybody is hurt
Today to hear testimony on the Trump Administrations budgetary and policy priorities in the middle east for fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from witnesses about the fy 20 budgets for the department of state Near Eastern Affairs bureau as well usaid bureau for the middle east. Thank the witnesses for appearing today. I recognize myself for purposes of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant ebt secretary shanker and administrator harvey for testifying today. Nearly three years in the Trump Administration, the United States face as multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration touts maximum pressure policy, iran continues to detablize countries from iraq yemen and leb ondespite President Trumps rhetoric tehran that is laufrmd attacks on International Shipping and regional states. Undermining u. S. Deterrence and credibility in the process. The Iranian Nuclear program is more advanced today than the day that President Trump took office. And the