The meeting will come to order. This hearing is entitled the Trump Administrations syria policy perspectives from the field mic. Thank you. Before i begin i would like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, elijah cummings, though we lost almost one week ago. Like others on this committee i had the pleasure and privilege to call him my friend for almost 20 years as we worked work on n issues that have confronted congress and our country. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed a legacy of Compassionate Service to those families in our society who still struggle to receive the full promise of the american dream. While we had, he had an abiding faith in the goodness and kindness of humankind, he was firm and his commitment to use hisit many talents, and the powr of his position, to wait in our behalf of the disenfranchised and to reduce p the suffering tt he saw in this world. Elijah lived his life in a meaningful cause, the cause of justice, the cause of liberty, and the cause of
The committee on education and labor will come to order. Hello, everyone. I note that a quorum is present. The committee is meeting in a legislative hearing to hear testimony on hr2694 the pregnant workers fairness act. I note for the committee that miss mcbath and mr. Cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in the hearing. Members who sit on the subcommittee and are present shall have First Priority to ask questions followed by members who sit on the full committee and present and only after all Committee Members who are present have gone, shall members who are not on the committee of education and labor ask questions. Pursuant to the committee reel 7c, the Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member to allows us to hear from the witnesses sooner and provides all members can adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. As a mom and a policymaker, i know how important it is to protect the Economic
Second circuit engage on both sides on a number of legal issues. This is 50 minutes. Welcome to the United States court of appeals for the tenth s circuit. [inaudible] you may be seated. What the panel will do, we will hear the first case then we will take a brief recess and then we will hear the rest of the calendar so i will call the calendar as a case right now and then the remaining case after the recess. Trump, donald dat donald j trums cyrus vance. Before i do that let me you can stand there. If i could let me just read as a matter of housekeeping for all concerned to just read into the record the agreement that if understand is now in place. And im quoting from the joint letter. Which says they agree to forbear enforcement of the maser subpoena between the oral argument in this matter octobe october 23, 2019 and 10 calendar days after this court issues the Panel Opinion on the following conditions. In one, any petition in this matter will be filed in the Supreme Court within the
Call the airwaves but thank you so much for joining us today and a very special welcome to our guests, assistant secretary and peaceful Deputy Assistant secretary for the Global Public affairs bureau. We are honored to have them here today. Special welcome to our commissioners the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy and vice chairman and commissioner. Today as you know under the auspices of the Advisory Commission we have called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the newly formed gpa and where it sits in state Department Vision for public democracy Going Forward for the 21st century. As the executive director it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the microphone over to my colleagues are opening comments i want to tell you about how things will go today. Mr. Farah will give us brief comments and then turn it over to our passable speakers and they will speak in the tech Team Formation and at the end of their presentation we will be happy to take your questions an
Thank you. We have to recognize the Senior Member here. It is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues, ive worked with ever member of this panel in some form of another inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the law and security that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined with you to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand the theme here is every single one of these distinguished Public Servants, served in the executive branch in the National Security community and the searching topic for today is how has that service informed your view as legislators and how can we be best poised from b