We believe women have the right to vote and drive cars. Are we doing anything about it . Nope who are we . I was in texas. What about that . Texas seems to be america to thousand two. Its asleep. Its asleep and it thinks it can weather the storm. It thinks it can, but its texas. They have a thousand people from california alone moving into texas every single day. I had a meeting with 200 ceos that have moved their companies to texas and i said now, you, you know why you moved your company to texas, but do your employees know . Have you made a point to tell your employees we could no longer do business in new jersey , we could no longer do business in california. No. You just moved to texas. All the employees come and they say i like texas but i really liked california. They will vote for the same thing and it will fundamentally change texas. Do you expect another 911 . Yes, i think its only a matter of time before we are gravely attacked. I dont think be necessarily like 911. My worst
To disrupt the flow of funds to Illicit Networks around the world, and this is one of those things thats going to stay in place. And all of those entities, iranian or otherwise, that were designated for their support of any terrorist organization are going to stay sanctioned. That includes banks designated for those reasons, one an iranian bank that was related to hezbollah financing. Theyre going to stay sanctioned. Now, the real powerful aspect of this is part of these sanctions that were imposed under the comprehensive iran sanctions accountability and divestment act, the bill passed by congress in 2010, that bill said if you are a foreign bank and you do business one of these people on our list, if you help them transit money to, from iran to lebanon or any other place or even from iran to london for completely peaceful activity, doesnt matter, it can get cut off the from the United States financial system. That is stay anything place, and that is well understood by the iranians. S
Well have 50 different labeling requirements but two or three states, then shat shows we need a National Standard. Right, the level of complexity with that type of labeling would be an incalculable burden on manufacturing. Mr. Chairman, i appreciate it. Time has expired on the floor votes so well come back as soon as we vote. There are two votes. And the committee stands in recess for the floor vote. The time of reassess having expired, well continue with the questions and at this point the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. Whitfield. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and i want to thank all of the witnesses for joining us today on this very important subject. As a matter of fact, i walked out of this hearing to go back to my office before i went to a floor for the vote, and there were a group of seven people in there wanted to talk about this bill. So somebody is really organized today. But it is an important issue, and mr. Offthe, id like to just ask for your comments. Fda has
Thats just on their thats taxation without representation and thats what this but puncher built on. Isnt that the license plate. It becomes just a slogan though because nobody pays attention to it just like every other slogan that gets forgotten. And and the democrats are to blame,. I agree, i think both parties have been complicit in this issue. Because by the way is there a website for statehood for d. C. . Yeah d. C. Vote does a lot of work on this issue, d. C. Vote. Org is an important website but the green party has been talking about it a lot and thats an important element that we need to continue to push on. In the final few minutes iona talk about the current election, we have three democrats running, Hillary Clinton, sanders, and omalley, are any of them interesting new or exciting you in any way shape or form question. Where you get a run. Hillary is really a very confirmed militarists, she jumped aside the secretary of defense robert gates who did not want to attack libya an
Who was a leading u. S. Negotiator with iran. Also, david singer, the you are times the New York Times National Security correspondent, and phil gordon. I am pleased to have all of them on this program. I begin with philip gordon. Where are we . We are in a situation that is even more difficult than it was a few days ago. Charlie because more people have gotten involved, or because more people seem to be backing down . Key too, because the these situations is the splits between saudi arabia and iran. That is driving the conflicts in syria, yemen, driving the policy the policyl, driving on executions, and so many other things in the region. The prerequisite to deal with these conflicts is to have some form of tolerance. You have this process going on in vienna to get these guys at the table for the first time, which led to some sliver of hope that you could bridge the gap and bring this terrible war to an end, and with the execution of the shia cleric, the burning of the embassy, the ru