Speaker who we aree so honored o have with us, senator tammy duckworth. Senator duckworth probably needs no introduction to most of you watching. She is an iraq war veteran, a purple heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the u. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and napa yes, senator for the state of illinois. For both of us working in our security, certainly for those of us who are women in National Security, when you think about people who are breaking down barriers ahead of you, store duckworth is the top of the list when the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom cup first u. S. Senator to give birth while in office, and particularly relevant to todays event the firsts member of congress was born in thailand and the first asianamerican who was elected to congress from the state of illinois. In addition to the work shes done of defense and Veterans Affairs, senator duckworth spent a lot of time thinking about the military cha
Administration. And the bring troops and libyas war will be live in tunisia on the final day of the u. N. Backs. Fighting ethiopias move into greater region is escalating with the reports of rockets hitting civilian areas. And growing concerns of ethnic cleansing, the countrys Human Rights Commission is sending a team to investigate reports of massacres in my car. Drop, Amnesty International says that its likely that hundreds of civilians were stabbed to death. The government blames forces loyal to, to graze leaders and allegations they deny. Thousands of people fleeing to neighboring sudan lived outside aljazeera have it out. Oh, hes in the city of gonda on the border of the t great region. One of the leaders, of the c. P. L. If im sorry, we cant go to the habits we appear to have lost contact with him. He was there a minute ago. Well move on and well come back and have it out over just a few moments. Actually i had sent us an update a while ago. Heres what he had to say. 2 explosions
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
And general manager hunts berlin and political cartoonist networker about the artwork on display. The hotel was built in 1928 on the side of the residences of china hay and henry items. And after the family relinquished their rights to the site in 1926 the developer built this hotel along with the st. Reaches. The hotel has been in existence since 1928. This bar has been in existence somewhere starting in the sixties or seventies. With my arrival in 1999, this bar was already known as off the record, a place to be seen but not heard. It was not in this color and format and lay out, but it was pretty well the same bar in the basement of the hotel. It is kind of like the speak easy place and has become very popular over the years. The decorations of political cartoons that are displayed from various artists, dating back to a collection of artwork who at this stage has deceased we do keep some of the original artwork still in the house. From that i know, it is that the previous ownership
Welcome, everyone the subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on both budgetary and policy priority is in the middle east for the fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from the witnesses about the 2020 budget2020budget for the departf Near Eastern Affairs bureau. Thanks the witnesses were appearing today and now recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant administrator for testifying today nearly three years into the administration the United States faces a multitude of challenges while the administration touts its maximum pressure policy, iran continues to destabilize from iraq to lebanon despite President Trumps bellicose rhetoric, tehran has been able to launch attacks in the International Shipping and regional states and undermining the deterrence and credibility in the process. The program was more intense today than it was on the day President Trump took office and the International Community is more divided in confronting i