Conceivably, it could be done in that office or be done with stuarts proposal for usoc. There does not seem to be an interest in the state department to do that and even when i was in charge of the scrs of us, there did not seem to be retinas on the rest of the building to use it. It was something of a foreign entity in the state department. Thank you very much for good answers and mr. Deutsch is recognized. Thank you, madame chairwoman. Mr. Bowen, you say and you spoke today about facilitating greater host country butin. I would like you to speak to what that did not happen in and then you also recommended insuring security before rebuilding. While that is important, i wonder the extent to which we can actually do that and whether there is concerned that it actually prolongs the conflict and that slows the reconstruction infrastructure that meets to happen. If you could speak to both of those and ambassador, as it relates to syria if that is the sort of thing that usoco would do and t
Republicans, 2025853881. Independents, 2025853882. You can also find us on social media. Send us a tweet, and we can share that on the air. Or join the conversation on facebook by looking for cspan. You can also email us. Ts journal cspan. Org. The senate is at risk of Nuclear Option. Deal to avert it is off. Majority leader reid tells minority leader mcconnell after filibuster fight. They triggered the Nuclear Option against minority filibusters, setting up a dramatic tuesday showdown in which republicans either will have to accept seven of president obamas controversial appointments or watch as democrats change the rules and end filibusters of executive branch nominees. Host here are other headlines. The senate is at war over nominees, the wall street we also see politico. Harry reid slamming mitch mcconnell, ready for the Nuclear Option. Here to tell us more and explain how weve gotten to this point is the politico senior congressional reporter on the phone. Thanks for talking with
I think at that point, pakistan will accept that they have given up the notion that the taliban. Re going to take over i think pakistan now feels that afghanistan threatens pakistan. I will say that pakistan would lower its objective and except some kind about, as long as there is some type of taliban and role. Be toitical thing will have an empowered, fairly elected government supported by the supported Afghan People that can rectify the society. That is critical to discussing the things they talk about. I appreciate hearing the words thank you because that is something president karzai never seems to be able to say. With reference to your own view, what would you want the united to help you achieve the type of elections that the Afghan People will have faith and . I will endorse what he said about the elections, but to add on that, one of the critical things is the type of messages that both the afghan Political Leadership and the public receives starting with raising the bar higher
Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive branch positions. Would only affect executive , noth decisions traditional nominees, not legislation, it wants to move forward so that no longer can a senator block a nominee for epa, Defense Department, by requiring , 61 votesinstead would be required, a majority of the senate. Majority lent leader reid wants to move forward, what would the next step the in the senate . There was going to be a jo
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