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governments. you mentioned going to the arab regimes at the u.n. there have been lots of changes in the last several years of those government and i am wondering if you can give us an overview of where palestine stands in terms of those governments that are trying very hard to win support in washington particularly. thank you very much for your time. i m with the institute of palestine studies. one question i know we are talking about the new leadership in the u.s. but there is also new leadership at the united nations. the new secretary-general starting january. how is the palestinian leadership feeling about any roles he might have regarding a more active, more serious approach dealing with palestine. thank you. go ahead. work the united nations commission of refugees. from my perspective, it seems like there is already two states that exist in palestine. it is just that the actual community might not recognize it, but i believe you are in the same position as africa
and as part of our effort, part of the president s effort to explore every possibility that is reasonable of ways in which to have an impact on ending the surge of daesh, that is being evaluated. what about other countries in the region, pakistan, turkey, egypt, algeria, morocco, to send ground troops against isis? there have been broad d discussions with various mill to mill discussions. providing possible people in certain circumstances. can i ask unanimous consent request? yes, sir. thank you. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that letter dated december 13, 2012, addressed to then secretary hillary rodham clinton be placed in the record. without objection. and i further ask that the response from the state department dated march 27, 2013, to then chairman darrell issa be placed in the record. without objection. lastly i would ask the news articles from the daily caller dated january 30, 2016 and the hill, dated 2-2-2016 be placed in the record. with
clinton s and your i don t know how many investigations there are. i think people are really getting bored with it, congressman. there s an awful lot of important discussions, policies and other things. that s what i m here mr. secretary, i appreciate that. as i said earlier, this is not about any of the investigations. this is about the work that was being done related to the federal records act and compliance. it absolutely is more about whether the american people can get what they re entitled to under a law that you quite frankly mr. chairman, i would note that the gentleman s time has expired. i have taken unprecedented steps including with the inspector general to make certain that is fully adhered to. i stand by the steps thank you gentleman s time has expired. appreciate the promotion. chair recognizes the ranking member. unanimous consent to enter into the record the memo of the inspector general. february 23, 2016, where he noted that secre
to b to c to d to e, on up through all the various iterations, you don t have to rebuild the network every time you do that. that s one of the things that s taken into consideration as you re doing standard. yes, sir? thank you, sir. david mccabe from the hill. i m looking a the next couple months and it seems like i m sorry, you re what? a the next couple months. it seems like there may be a point where you re fighting contentious battles. the set top box item lifeline and almost certainly a privacy ruling for isps. i wonder how you expect to handle the challenge of fighting on kind of three different fronts and also whether you are concerned at all that that might make it harder to get consensus among the five of you on less controversial atim tells? so, again, i think the reality comes down to the fact that there is, roughly 9 0% of the time there s consensus. all you get to see is the fun stuff. i was interested during the media coverage of justice scalia s de