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I dont think it is very helpful. Thank you, madam chair for holding this hearing. I want to say at the outset i have an honor flight coming in shortly. I have somebody from bangladesh here. I was clair of this committeehair of this committee a while back. I went to yemen and mr. Connolly is right, there have been problems there for years. But i would argue that they certainly have gotten worse under the administration and you know it was this administration that claimed that yemen was a Success ...

Minutes. On september 10th of last year, president obama announced to the American Public his plan to degrade and destroy the terrorist group isil. While making his case for americas role in the fight against isil, he highlighted our strategy in yemen and held it up as a model for success to be emulated in the fight against isil. Yet, a week later, the iran backed militia seize the the government. They continued to hail our Counter Terror operations in yemen as a model for success even though we...

Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities,...

Compromise but had some savings including the emergency provision. In this is the provision is. With final passage with the bipartisan support and opposition. Yes. One of the issues is where you see the senate to going with this san senator leahy who offered companion legislation already expressing disappointment with changes and the compromise that has been made to it. Host the senate dealing with National Security with the nomination of david barron to the First Circuit the senate advanced the...

Better. Because of miss learners because of her unwillingness to fully testify nd because she has refused to legally cooperate with this investigation, i urge my in the house to hold miss learner in contempt. Yield back. Gentleman leads back. Gentleman from maryland is recognized. To the distinguish gentleman from massachusetts mr. Minutes. Ee gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for they minutes. Thank you mr. Speaker and i from the gentleman maryland. In response to the recent allegation...

Do it, but i think well get our arms around it and it will work, but we cant rely on regulation alone and thats why you need moral hazard and no institution can be too big to fail. Thats why its just essential that we end too big to fail. I think weve gone a long way to doing that. I think the biggest way to do it is making sure the biggest, most systemically important institutions have significant capital charges and that the regulators have the tools to make sure we dont prop them up in the cu...

Ms. Lerner impeded official investigations. She risked exposing and may actually have exposed confidential taxpayer information in the process. Day after day, action after action ms. Lerner exposed herself as a servant to her political philosophy rather than a servant to the American People. This, mr. Speaker, is why the house has taken the extraordinary action of referring ms. Lerner to the department of justice for criminal prosecution. And why we will request a special council to investigate ...

Directly impacted and they are worried about their well being. H they also are frustrated becaush they want to help, and how can they help . Que and thats a question were try going to try to focus on during this hearing, is how can individuals help in the responss effort, what is the best way to deal with it . Deal w i thought the meeting with billy was particularly helpful, but it was clear to me that we have to keep a focus on what is happening, and that brings me ts this hearing, the purpose,...

Posthigh school, junior college, and the like, is the basic approach. But it is a very, very difficult problem. To bring the Federal Reserve into it for a moment, as i said theres not much the Federal Reserve can do about very longterm trends like this that dont really have much to do with monetary policy. But over the shorter period, our efforts to put people back to work, and we are making extraordinary efforts to try to increase the number of jobs in our economy, thats going to be important f...

He referred to the issue of her making statements to the Justice Department. With that, i yield to the distinguished gentlelady, a member of our committee, ms. Speer for two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the entlelady is recognized. Ms. Speier i thank the gentleman for his leadership and to say a few minutes here on the floor. Im not here to defend lois lerner today but i am here to defend the constitution and every americans right to assert the fifth amendment so as not to incriminate themse...