At any time. This hearing is entitled evaluating the effectiveness of u. S. Sanctions programs. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Im pleased to welcome our colleagues and our witnesses to the subcommittees hearing on u. S. Sanctions from iran to north korea to russia and venezuela, sanctions are increasingly used as an instrument in our Foreign Policy tool kit and Congress Must ensure that they be held accountable for results. This hearing will examine major sanctions programs as we seek to evaluate their effectiveness. Let me highlight three points that may provide context for this discussion. First, sanctions are key to bringing about behavioral change abroad and this committee has stressed that they should be designed accordingly. That means calibrating sanctions and sanctions relief based on specific and achievable actions we wish to see from a foreign actor. Tailoring sanctions in this way is important for secondary sanctions, given how banking
Okay go ahead. It doesnt have a clear lever and political mandates. The principal leader of the organization, the main political figure in result is the former president , Founding Member, a Founding Member of the wilson center, another program i laid there. The president has resisted calls by members of his party for impeachment of president dilma rousseff, thing that impeachment is not philosophical thing. Enough to cause. The causes are described in the constitution of brazil. He i think finally was able yesterday to unify the discourse a little bit by calling the governor of sao paulo and has abandoned this idea to try to call for new elections after obtaining the cancellation of the action which was a kind of not a viable opposition from the start. There was nothing particularly wrong with the way the president was elected. Thit should not be pursued. But president cardoso after the rallies that took place on sunday, had about 800,000 people in the streets. They were smaller, the
Headquarters. I am Francine Lacqua straight to the markets because they have been hoping for an hour. Stocks overall dropping. U. S. Stock indices are on the downside. Oil and copper falling. We have report showing that it is slowing slower than expected. U. S. Treasuries are rallying. Lets get to first word news with nejra cehic. Nejra german Industrial Production jumped more than forecast in germany. From december it climbed 3. 3 from december. European Union Leaders have its toward an agreement with turkey to halt to the inflow of migrants. Is jeanclaude called plans a real game changer. The separation without turkeys willingness to take back all irregular migrants who had been apprehended. Beay we were assured it will possible. All of the abovementioned ofisions that the days irregular migration to europe are over. Francine nejra chinas. Xports slumped more than 25 imports continued their streak of decline, falling more than 14 . It included the Chinese New Year holiday. A challeng
Pull us to the downside for these major averages. On the s p 500 he was looking at 13,090. Talking about the three names that reported without that United Technologies and also dupont. You can see these names coming out and not looking too good. As we see these big names coming out, they are giving forecasts. A lot of these s p 500 companies are giving forecasts and when they have to lower the expectations. Whether it is at the top and or bottom and or having the whole thing be below what analysts were expected. That is what we were looking at. 3m would be another name with a tough outlook as well. Back to you. Dagen thank you. Third and final president ial debate was also about what was not said last night. Gop challenger mitt romney choosing not to push bolivia situation with president obama. He thinks mr. Romney missed an opportunity to win this thing. I think you could have done it in and authoritative way. As an american citizen, i would like to know what happened there. I would l
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