his chemical weapon stockpile. senator ayotte, who s winning in syria right now, putin or obama? unfortunately, it s putin right now. and, again, putin can play a role of putting pressure on assad. they re not putting enough pressure on assad. assad regime is slow, dragging its feet, slow rolling trying to comply with the chemical weapons agreement. so right now assad is winning which is very unfortunate. and what i m worried about also is the recent testimony of the director of national intelligence, clapper, about how the al qaeda extremists in syria are now actually posing a threat to our homeland. so this is a real issue for us as well. senators, we have a couple of minutes left. i want to get into one other issue. that is the president s budget. we got some information about the budget that he will ek from. let s put up the details on the screen. he will reportedly call for an end to the era of austerity and ask for $56 billion in new spending for job training, early
his chemical weapon stockpile. senator ayotte, who s winning in syria right now, putin or obama? unfortunately, it s putin right now. and, again, putin can play a role of putting pressure on assad. they re not putting enough pressure on assad. assad regime is slow, dragging its feet, slow rolling trying to comply with the chemical weapons agreement. so right now assad is winning which is very unfortunate. and what i m worried about also is the recent testimony of the director of national intelligence, clapper, about how the al qaeda extremists in syria are now actually posing a threat to our homeland. so this is a real issue for us as well. senators, we have a couple of minutes left. i want to get into one other issue. that is the president s budget. we got some information about the budget that he will release a week from tuesday. let s put up the details on the screen. he will reportedly call for an end to the era of austerity and ask for $56 billion in new spending for job train
no, it hasn t. i think the implementation of the strategy is a little bit uncertain now because negotiations have failed. now, it s good that we pursued that, but i think it is very important that the administration have a very specific plan to change the dynamic on the battlefield. the administration deserves a lot of credit on the humanitarian aid, did i mention $1.7 billion, but also it deserves credit for the chemical weapons agreement, but they have to complete it and bring all of it into effect. but i m really concerned now that we are at a pivot point, and unless we make it very clear that we re going to specifically help the opposition, those that are well-vetted, not the extremists, but those that are representing the legitimate aspirations of the syrian people, that if we don t do that, then we re going to have a bad result in syria. senator bob casey, democrat from pennsylvania, sir, thank you for your time today.
recruit people, particularly in minnesota and they have recruited about 20 people over the time. some of those have gone over somalia. maybe and maybe not. there some left and that is a really scary prospect. let s turn to syria. you have been out on the border of one of the camps. what is the humanitarian part? put aside the debate we had in the last two weeks. i have to say when you are talking to these kids, the face of the syrian refugee is a child s face. half of them are children. the crisis has been resolved because the chemical weapons agreement. the american politicians crisis. you are still getting people fleeing the country every 15 seconds and 5,000 people are being killed a month.
have gone to somalia. maybe some are left, but i think it is a really scary prospect. let s talk about syria, you were just there at the border in one of the camps there, what is the situation with the humanitarian action on the ground. piers, when you re out there on the border talking to these kids, the face of a syrian refugee today is a child s face. half of them are children. and when you hear americans talk about oh, maybe the crisis is resolved because of the chemical weapons agreement, maybe the american politicians crisis is solved, not the humanitarian crisis. every 15 seconds 5,000 people are killed a month. i think basically we re on a trajectory that is going to lead hundreds of thousands of people killed in syria. the jordanian monarchy may