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Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in pu...

It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the ent...

Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strate...

Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate contin...

Appeared on this campus all those decades ago that first mouse, that first message helped lay a foundation. And in the decades since, on campus uses like this, in Companies Campuses like this, in companies that are represented here, new people have come along, each laying down a block, one on top of the other. When future historians ask, who built this age, the answer will be, we all did. As americans. And im absolutely confident that if we keep at this, if we keep working together, in the spiri...

2011 so i think the administration is moving down that course before they started hearing from the Environmental Community and you could see the state department was heading down its route with Environmental Impact statements. They said look this is not environmentally friendly. Only downward as things change in the political environment within the administration not on the public side. Poll after poll has shown 60 to 70 approval for the pipeline so i think its changed at the very top of the pol...

Building up their military presence in crimea . Ambassador nuland . Yes, sir. Mr. Poe that would seem to me that they are there to stay. What do you think . Ambassador nuland i think we need to maintain the pressure and we have to maintain the cost and we have to keep mr. Poe when i talked to the president of ukraine last year asking what we could do, he replied that they would prefer that we send something other than canned food to them, which is what we were doing0 are we what we were doing. A...

As well. Lets give henry and brian a round of applause. [ applause ] all of the board of directors and in particularly gary cost who has given Remarkable Service over the years. All of us join you in remembering the great life and work of erniae. I was deeply saddened to hear over the weekend of his passing. I want to send my best wishes to his family. But i also want to make sure that we, not only remember with sadness his life, but the enormous vision he brought, the indelible mark he made on ...

Foot and the only way to do that is to reclassify. There is going to be energy from outside of the beltway where people have a common sense to solve the problem. Host thank you for being on the the communicators to talk about the impact of net neutrality. We will discuss the debate over the raising the debt ceiling and then a California Republican will take questions about security at the Winter Olympics in russia. And we will look at the president s executive order to raise the federal contract...

Liquidity to the nations Mortgage Finance markets. You may have heard mark zandi say that it werent for fha, the Housing Market wouldve completely shut down. You know that fha is enormously important to the Hispanic Community. 610,000 hispanic households have purchased a home using an fha guaranteed mortgage since president obama took office. In 2012 alone, 55 of hispanic homebuyers used fha. We want to make sure that future generations have the same opportunity by ensuring fha is strong for yea...