This is live coverage on cspan3. Sub committee will come to order. After recognizing myself and Ranking Member duetch for five minutes each for Opening Statements. We will then hear from our witnesses and without objection the witnesses prepared statements will be made a part of the record. Members may have five days to insert statements and questions for the record subject to the length limitation and the rules. As prior, we hear that this is your first congressional testimony so well ask you the really tough questions. Kidding, kidding, kidding. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes. Since our sub committees last hearing on lebanon, much has changed in our by rilateral relationship. The picture in neighboring syria continues to look dire. Isis appears to be on its last legs yet again. But despite these changes and in some cases because of them, many of the same challenges and concerns about lebanon and u. S. Policy remain. As one of my israeli friends put it, lebanon is e
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