One of the issues that does concern me is our national defense. I have washed us around the world i challenge some people. Is there any country in the world that we have a stronger relationship with today than we had six years ago . I said that, too. But i was corrected. Somebody said iran. Somebody else said to cuba. Its about that. A while back i was in egypt and they told me 98 of the threats that all the relation together with egypt have been suffered by the Foreign Policy of this president. There are good people that we can work with. There are moderate muslims. General sisi made the strongest statement from the muslim world ive ever heard and hes a man we can work with and we need to do so and thats a piece of what we need to do to put america back into safety and security. I will challenge the folks that speaker today and those that aspire to the oval office, lay out a plan force. Lay out the plan to defeat radical islamic jihad. [applause] lay out their plans so it isnt some ki
Regime that systematically denies political and Economic Freedom or do we preserve normal relations for postcastro transition so we can use them as a lever to induce a broad profound and irreversible reforms that will effectively liberate cuban people . Inexplicably president obama chose to matter of course i hasten to add that this is not a partisan debate. There is strong bipartisan consensus is strong for the regime but is moving toward democracy. Although president obama is moving quickly to force that part of the leverage by normalizing diplomatic ties he can respect opposition to his plan to lift the economic embargo with cuba. One misconception of the debate is the socalled helmsburton act as the consolidator of the act of 1986. There is a misconception that this codifies the embargo. That act drafted originally by the democratic senator Robert Menendez is a formula for establishing normal trade and even a two cuba in the postcastro era. It merely anticipates a friendly transiti
Discussion draft. I hope we can begin conversations about a truly bipartisan approach to help fix this broken law. I know the members on my side are anxious to begin work and to continue the long tradition of this committee tackling tough problems in a bipartisan fashion. Fixing no child left behind should not be a partisan issue. It should be one that we do work hand in hand not as democrats and republicans but as americans. This is an issue that is not about politics. It is about what is best for our kids. In our country we believe that every student should have access to a quality Public Education regardless of where they live or how they learn or how much money their parents make. That vision is a big part of what we mean when we talk about america, what makes our country great. Other countries in the world are investing in education. They are working every day to get it right for their students. China, india and others think they can beat us in the classroom. We know better. We kn
Judith Lazar of 791 Prospect Avenue, West Hartford passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at the Reservoir in West Hartford. Judith was born in Budapest, Hungary on October 29, 1924. Judith will join her father, Dr. Stephen Lazar; her mother, Elisabel Kalacsa; and her brother, John Lazar in heaven. Judith held both a […]