And authority on the subject with the iraqi ambassador, senior researcher. Im sure well have a great discussion with lots of important insight. On top of hudsons Live Streaming that we always do we have the honor of having cspan2 this event so another reading to the viewers out there. Reconstructing iraq and the good news from iraq is the military defeat of the terrible terrorist organization, isis, by the Iraqi Military with international cooperation. The task ahead is daunting. Iraq needs to rebuild and heal the communities. Challenges remain from funding, stabilization efforts in the even larger resources needed for reconstruction the coming years. Responding was one of the goals of the regions iraqi reconstruction conference in kuwait which secured around 30 billion from private actors. Significantly the gulf countries except in quite to the conference which is interesting testimony with its own troubled history with the iraqi nation back in 1990. Congratulations to the kuwaitis fo
Could you compare that to comments made yesterday by the president saying that isis ranks are shrinking and morale is sinking. Could that be consistent with what youre seeing on the ground in libya . I guess you were there ten weeks ago roughly . The government of National Accord has been in place that amount of time in tripoli. They have increased support domestically. I would note it has been ready to support the cabinet. They had not been permitted to vote by a minority. You have seen support for the government grow. The libyan people expect more out of the presidency counscil than theyve gotten. Thats normal and natural. People all over the world want more out of their governments than they tend to get and theres frustrations with what the government can actually do. The government needs to do more. Progress being made is made on the ground, sir, every day right now. Theres lots of ground for pessimism and lots of ground for optimism and real progress. If we were today in a situati
Stuck in traffic and cant get home in time for dinner with her kids. And in the very worst cases cases like we saw yesterday on amtrak it might very well mean a love one is lost. Congress looks at this like an academic exercise, numbers on a page to score points or balance a budget make an argument about which are worthy of support. That is not the real world. In the real world, the choices we make have an impact on peoples lives, on their incomes, it has impact on our nations ability to compete. On americas ability to leave the economy globally in the world. We in congress are failing to recognize the realworld impacts on the choices we make about transportation infrastructure. We have a passenger railroad that expired in 2013. We have a Highway Trust Fund on the brink of insolvency with no plans to fix it. We have an outdated Aviation System that we refuse to adequately fund. We have failed to upgrade the available technologies that can reduce the number of failures. We have appropri
Attorney, im not talking as a politician. Im talking about being a human being whos been on the front lines. Ive been to sinjar mountain. Ive met the girls that have been kidnapped and raped by isis. And im telling you that we need to give them seeds of hope. Seeds of hope to know that they can live and thrive in their home. Im here because i promised these people, my friends across the world, that i would be their voices today. Hear their narratives. Im here today because of a woman i met. She was in mosul in home at night and out of nowhere, isis came in and said you have two choices. You either convert to islam, or you pay the gizziah. She gave them the money and said give me one minute because my daughter is in the bathroom taking a shower, im just going to get her out. They said, you dont have one second. They took a torch, they lit the house, starting from the bathroom where she was taking a shower. She picked up her daughter rita, and she thought she could take her to the hospit
Together Syrian People. We appreciate it. We know that youre doing a lot. But they really need to be in a safe zone. So i really asking you and seeking this, its so important. Thank you. Rep. Cicilline mr. Chairman if i might ask indull against for one final quep i question. The role of the current Iraqi Government, you know, there are many people who argue that isis is an outgrowth of policies from iraqi and Syrian Governments that have marginalized sunnis in particular. What do we need to see from the current Iraqi Government or a future Syrian Government to demonstrate the tolerance and inclusiveness that will prevent this kind of violence . Should the United States be doing more to condition some of our support for the Iraqi Government on their commitment to take certain steps to protect minority populations and build a more inclusive government . I mean thats you know, the syrian solution is the longterm answer. But in this interim period, can we be doing more to demand more of th