now, more than a year into the campaign s rollback and destroy isis, it is impossible to assert that isis is losing or that we are winning. to be sure, sure, there has been some tactical progress in putting a recent rick capture of romani. this is a testament to our leaders, but serious challenges remain. isis has lost some territory but has consolidated power in its core territories in both iraq and syria. it maintains control of key iraq cities and art military commanders estimate that this key terrain will not be retaken this year. the un reports that since isis invasion of iraq in 2014, nearly 20000 iraq civilians have been killed, nearly 3500 people, predominantly women and children are estimated to be isis slaves in iraq. the secretary division in iraq is no surprise that the training of iraq security forces has been slow and the building of support for sunni tribal forces is even slower. in syria, there is no plausible strategy to achieve the timeline that won t result
senator. there is too much stuff going into too many disparate groups and it actually has made the job of the armed opposition more tough. we have to be tough with for some of our regional allies. on the ground senator, as isil has pushed out of places it will be really important to try to get help into the civil administrations. the syrian government won t go into those places and again these are in a sense the political side of the opposition linked to the moderate armed opposition. so the state department has worked with the dedication and resources and program money as i was pushed out of place. so there is clean water several hours a day. maybe the schools can reopen in some places and that kind of thing. just one more question and my time is short. we have got a lot of stock in edwards and many of us got to know him and yet we didn t support him. trucks that were supposed to be delivered were delivered months late. i mean it was almost like, i don t even want to use t
today a 62 to 36 but was passed on the keystone pipeline. how speaker john boehner read the statement that we hope president obama will drop his threat to veto this commonsense bill that would strengthen energy security and create thousands and thousands of good new paying american jobs. more reaction to the senate votes available on our website at c-span.org. former secretary of state henry kissinger, madeleine albright and george shultz testified to the senate armed services committee hearing. they discussed the russia ukraine conflict and the islamic state. the beginning of the hearing is interrupted by protesters calling henry kissinger a war criminal. john mccain chairs this two-hour hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] new paragraphs [chanting loudly] nuke aircraft [chanting loudly] [inaudible] [inaudible]
for a vote, i urge this committee to make sure that they also pull in the illegal work permits that will be granted by this administration before we re able to get around to preventing that action. and i thank you for your attention. yes, ma am. thank you very much. mr. king? thank you, mr. chairman. i do thank the committee. you put a lot of hours here in this committee. and i know that the public appreciates it well enough. i bring an amendment here to the appropriations bill, and some of the things that it does, it recognizes i supported this date of december 11th as the deadline for the cr because the president was promising that he was going to issue his i ll call them lawless edicts executive amnesty perhaps for the discussion of this committee he promised he was going to do that. it was one of the promises that he kept. i argued sometimes against my conserve conservative colleagues who wanted to do a cr that lasted until perhaps next march that we need to d
or second us a tweet at #comments. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. now on efforts to combat isis in iraq and syria. deputy mckirk testified before the house foreign affairs committee about the obama administration s strategy and efforts to build a more effective national government in iraq. this is two hours and ten minutes. this hearing will come to order, i will ask those in the audience to take their skates at this time. this morning we welcome back ambassador mcgirk who was one of the few sounding the itsis alar as early as you did. we were having hearings last february to discuss the need to use airpower to turn back isis. after four months of the u.s.-led air campaign in iraq and in syria, isis still controls essentially the same amount of territory than it did in the summer. and one of the reasons for this in my opinion is the limited nature of this effort. we have conducted only about 1,000 air st