The only other excuse is if youre a homicide or narcotics detective. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Im one of the coowners of politics and prose, my husband is right there. We hope that by the end this event you will not be stuck here in a snowstorm. We are pretty confident you will get out okay but we are delighted to have all of you here. Before we get started, i think, many of you have been to events here. Just a few housekeeping reminders, if you have a noisemaking device and can silence it now, we would be grateful for that. The way this will work is our guest will be in conversation before a bit and then theyll be happy to take questions from the audience. We do have microphone set up right here. We really would love it if you make it to the mic so we can record the questions and that would be very, very helpful. At the end of the event there will be a signing at this table and kind enough and will expedite t
I appreciate this opportunity for the first hearing of this calendar year. In my view of todays hearing, we present the American People with a false choice. Its very premises suggests that we can either keep america safe or preserve our fundamental values. I reject that promise. We can and must defeat terrorism without sacrificing our principles. To compromise these principles and blame over a billion muslims for the twisted actions of an extremist view only serves to divide america, to alienate and legitimate the load groups that falsely claim to speak for islam. This makes us less safe. To truly tackle and destroy the ideology that lead fanatics to do us harm we will be best defended by maintaining open, tolerant us and religious freedom. We cannot fight radicalization with further radicalization. The country is still trying to make sense of a tragic attack in orlando 16 days ago. He massacred 49 innocent people, injuring 50 more, 50 more, leaving our nation and world shaken. These a
They are going to push back and treat the theocratic mentality and have a vision because otherwise theres the cognitive dissonance that prevents the advancement of the ideas that can happen this laboratory in america. Take your medical and now to step further in europe for two trading symptoms instead of addressing the root cause. I assume you could analogize this to a misdiagnosis. In this instance that we missed a diagnosis as a malady that has brought about as a result of poverty and the result of lack of Educational Opportunities or a Career Opportunity what might we mess . We would miss the fact that the prisoners in saudi arabia and syria are fighting not for poverty against poverty. They are fighting for freedom and for liberty and in this Great Society we can even recognize the voices, the descendents voices but if you look in the cold wars being told that their voices dont matter at all that matters is the economic plight and in the meantime marker from the cold war would cozy
President of the American Islamic forum for democracy in phoenix, arizona, a grad want of the university of wisconsin, milwaukee, and the Medical College of wisconsin. Dr. Jasser is a former commissioner of the United States commission on International Religious freedom and served as a medical officer in the United States navy. Dr. Jasser is currently in private practice in phoenix, specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology. Ms. Farhan kara is the president and executive director of Muslim Advocates in oakland, california. Graduate of wellsly college and cornell law school, she has previously served as counsel to the u. S. Senate Judiciary Committee and worked as a litigation associate with several prom inept washington, d. C. , law firms. Mr. Philip hainey a former customs and Border Protection officer in the department of Homeland Security. Officer hainey completed several tours at the National Targeting Center near washington, d. C. , and he has won numerous awards an
2015. I hereby appoint the honorable Randy Hultgren to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. As you make available to your people the grace and knowledge to meet the needs of the day, we pray that your spirit will be upon the members of this peoples house, giving them the richness of your wisdom. Bless the members of the Minority Party as they gather these next days. May they, with those who accompany them, travel safely and meet in peace. Bless, also, the Majority Party as they return to their constituencies. Give them hearts and ears to listen well to all those whom they represent. May the power of your truth and our faith in your providence give them all the confidence they must have to do the good work required for service to our nation. May all that i