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mr. mccain: after a year of bloodshed, the crisis in syria has reached a decisive moment. it s estimated that more than 7,500 lives have been lost. the united nations has declared that syrian security forces are guilty of crimes against humanity, including the indiscriminate shelling of civilians, the execution of defectors and the widespread torture of prisoners. bashar al-assad is now doing to homes what his father did to hamah. aerial photographs procured by human rights watch show a city that has been laid to waste by assad s tanks and artillery. a british photographer who was wounded and evacuated from the city described it as a quote , a medieval siege and slaughter, the kinds of mass atrocities that nato intervened in libya to prevent in benghazi are a reality in homes. indeed syria today is the scene of some of the worst state-sponsored violence since milosevic war of crimes in the balkans or russia ....
of the issues that u.s. foreign aid supports, like it s own citizens health issues. borrowing money from the chinese government to spend back in china on health programs seems a particularly bad use of u.s. government funds especially as americans struggle to cover their own rising health care costs. why are we proposing $2 million in support of health programs in china when the chinese hold an estimated $1.2 trillion of u.s. debt? well, congressman, the remaining aid that we are asking for goes to what we consider to be transnational issues in which we have a stake. it was united states aid and leadership that finally helped china respond to their own hiv/aids crisis, which does have a positive effect on the epidemic far beyond their borders. when we look at communicable diseases, when we look at the need to try to help democracy, human rights, good governance groups. there are a lot of brave lawyers in cities in china that are standing up against coercive practices ....
they are auditors and so forth to get the direction of four excellent commissioners and not be a distraction. personal involvement. it is an enforcement matter. the buck stops with you. so after this hearing, when farmers from nebraska, what chairman gensler said about getting my money back, he is not participating and i have nothing to offer. he has got good staff in their handling it. but you see from our standpoint we want a person to come before us and answer the hard questions. that is what your job is about. it feels to me like you are not discharging their responsibilities of the job. i feel that i am. i am doing it to the best of my abilities and judgment and it was not the first time when it turns to and enforcement matter that may involve particular individual and in this case 14 years earlier, nine years earlier when the sarbanes oxley work was done. that thursday, said general counsel, what do yo ....
important mission. i appreciate you coming today and i certainly do appreciate your family being here with you. for too long, americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of auditory lenders that operate with impunity outside of consumer finance laws and away from the regulatory oversight. payday lenders took advantage of people in north carolina for many years until after considerable legislation and litigation we put a stop to the practice. i am optimistic that with a confirmed director in place at the cfpb, we can start to reign in those predatory lenders in the parts of the country where they continue to prey on american families, outside the regulatory environment. offices within the bureau have already embarked on important work and once again it is time to put a director in place to support these offices. the office of servicemembers affairs for example was set up within the bureau to ensure military personnel and their families are educated and ....
varies with the amount of the transaction, we believe that fraud losses are best incorporated through a component in the interchange fee standards. turning to the implementation approaches, numerous issuers, trade groups, networks and individuals objected to the fee limits embodied in the cap under both alternatives and the safe harbor. however, many of these commenters recognized the app l appealed and acknowledged a pure specific standard would be difficult to implement and enforce. although many issuers argued against both alternatives, a significant number preferred alternative two, the standalone over alternative one, the framework with the safe harbor in a cap due to the second alternative s ease of come ploins. however, many of these commenters suggested raising the cap value for expanded definition and to cover the costs of a larger percentage of covered issuers. merchants uniformly supported alternative 1 as being the most consistent with the statute. merchant ....