Half. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are ready to get started. Is david ibsen, the executive director of the counter extremism project. It is my pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon for our discussion, rights and responsibilities of social media platforms in an age of global extremism. For those of you who may not be aware, however group, cep, is an Education Research working to combat extremism worldwide. In addition to researching extremist entities and their ideologies and formulating and developing and implementing counterradicalization programs in communities around the world, we also work to pressure expose with the hopes of degrading extremist financial and Communication Networks and online and Internet Networks in particular. And this part of our work in the online space has been of continuous importance to us as our organization has grown and the reason is that extremists continue to demonstrate their ability to successfully misuse and weaponize the internet t
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
Trump and presented arguments for removing the president from office. This is 15 minutes. Mr. Green mr. Speaker, once again i am accorded the preeminent privilege of ddressing the house. I consider this one of the great honors of my life to be able to address the house of representatives. And today after this oneminute i consider remark, mr. Speaker, i will present a privileged resolution. I want to thank the many persons, especially my staff, who have assisted in the drafting and crafting of this resolution. Im grateful to the many persons who have supported me many in ways. Mr. Speaker, with that, i yield back the balance of my time. And, mr. Speaker, pursuant to ause 2a1 of rule 9, i rise to give notice of my intention to raise a question of the privileges of the house. The form of the resolution is as follows. Am i recognized, mr. Speaker . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman may proceed. Mr. Green thank you. , peaching Donald John Trump president of the United States, of high mi
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