Regarding us arms sales. To start, we should recognize and acknowledge that the law contemplates and indeed requires a partnership between the executive branch and legislative branch regarding arms sales. This committee plays an Important Role to conduct rigorous oversight of the issue. At the same time the law does grant the President Authority to conduct sales without congressional approval in times of emergency. And focusing on that issue. This hearing will focus on these roles and authorities. We must consider the context for this latest declaration, the latest in attack on iran and its proxies and partners capabilities to defend against those threats. The arms export control act, the authority to declare an emergency concerning specific arms sales and avoid the standard process of congressional notification. Such president ial authority dates back 40 years to Lessons Learned from the october 1973 war in the middle east. The president s of both parties used emergency authorities on
My name is rita smith and on behalf of the Charles Koch Institute i like to thank you for joining us today for what promises to be a substantive and timely discussion about the applicability or lack thereof of existing legal authorities to the use of force against iran. Its great to see so many staffers here today. We are encouraged to see a full house. You guys have so much to do with the way we approach the broader matter of congressional war powers. Its encouraging to see an interested room looking to get informed by expert jurists up here today. For the sake of time and discussion im going to keep the introductions perfunctory in no small part because our panelists reputations undoubtedly precede them. To my far left Stephen Vladek is the a dalton cross professor and law at the university of texas school of law in austin. A graduate of Amherst College and yale law school. But distinction is teaching and Research Focus on federal jurisdiction, constitutional law, National Security l
M its good to have you with us today members of the European Parliament made history by electing the 1st woman to be Commission President that woman germanys outgoing defense minister ursula fun. Now she will succeed john called younger in the top job after being voted in by a narrow margin of just 9 votes underly and will be as we said the 1st woman to ever serve as the Commission President in the European Union. Of underlined as promised a united and strong europe saying that she will work constructively and pragmatically to achieve that we want to go live now to our Brussels Bureau chief rex hoffman he is standing by at the European Parliament in strasbourg and i think i understand he has the newly elected president with a mass. Thats right brant we do was alive on the line is with us today and i have a very simple question the start of the interview are you feeling. Relieved and happy because it was a tough ride over 13 days now i had to. Formulate the guidelines the political guid
To say to iran that might convince it to stop its rolling back of cooperation its reduction of cooperation in terms of its commitments to the nuclear deal in may president Hassan Rouhani of iran said that since other countries that signed the nuclear deal are either unwilling or unable to maintain their commitments to the deal iran cant be the only one expected to maintain the integrity of the way and as such a run will be reducing some of those commitments now european leaders in a few in the last few days have reportedly said that they will inject some cash into a banking bypass system known as instax essentially designed as a kind of or oil for Goods Program that would allow iran to continue to trade with europe but the fact is it hasnt proven itself to be successful enough in the question is if it will have any sort of scale to be able to make up for all of the problems that iran is faced economically from u. S. Sanctions now before the United States reimposed Oil Sanctions iran wa
Salespeople in chief of their countries large arms contractors. And this is the template used by large defense contractors around the world. Companies might be a lot of the sort of effect would be part of a government but theyre effectively above the Law Corruption is not merely a dirty little detail on top of the arms trade its actually in a lot of cases what drives the International Arms trade many of these deals would not happen if they did not provide opportunities for personal enrichment i would be offended if i thought. We had the monopoly on corruption. To pay more for the right 3 months we made a run to run for 20 years it was they paid 6000000. 00 every year to mine off. As i was being dragged out right at the last 2nd im going to still fail remind everyone that this guy is a war criminal can i just say actually called the record what he said about iraq and j. P. Morgan is completely and totally untrue ive never had a discussion with them now im not suggesting that it was a ph