Please feel free as you come to your turn to introduce your family and friends who are here with you. We thank them for their willingness to support you and the efforts that youre getting ready to undertake. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much mr. Chairman. I dont have my two teenagers here. Many of you knew them when they were little babies and i was walking the halls with them because they are both back in dallas. I have my neighbor from virginia. We do hope to get you to nato by the time School Enrollment starts. Okay thank you. It is so important that my son start school on time so i think both of you for acknowledging that. I also want to thank you, mr. Chairman and mr. Ranking member for your courtesy throughout this process, and your leadership and the way you work this committee. I appreciate it so much. I appreciate all the members of the committee and i know how much you spend in time and effort to make sure our foreign policy, i ow our ambassadors and state departmen
Cable companies and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. Id like to think you for being here to testify, your insights and experience will be helpful as we begin to reengage on this difficult topic. Over a decadell since 9 11 and there is an interest on the part of many members to revisit and refresh the authority we used to fight terrorism. As result of these types of threats and others, multiple president s have used the 2001 authorization for the use of conduct force to hundreds of drones carts around the world and put american troops on the ground in multiple countries. However, there are a multitude of terrorist groups operating today that pose a direct threat to the United States and have lesser connection to the 9 11 attacks. Many questioned whether the 2000 ams covers these types of groups. I have always believed it was important for congress to exercise its constitutional role to authorize the use of force and our country is better off when congress clearly a
Welcome, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to the American Association to the advancement of science or sss, as we call it and welcome to the kickoff event for the historic charge for science and were at aaas. Its our distinct pressure to introduce our speaker dr. John holdren hes the professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of government and a professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and Planetary Sciences at harvard university. In 1995 john gave acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the pugwash conferences on science and world affairs, an International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently for the last eight years, john was president obamas science adviser and director of the office of science and Technology Policy where he was my boss for a while. John is the longest serving president ial science adviser in the history of the position. His
Recognizedders are universally to have had a visceral patriotism that made them love their country and fight harder for it the interest. No other Prime Ministers before or since inspired quite that same belief, and that is why people ask what would maggie do . I will return to that question in a few minutes, but to do so, describei must first and what is legacy thatcherism. If you want to understand the basic emotional drive of Margaret Thatcher, it is to be found in some words that she addressed to a Television Interviewer toward the close of the 1979 Election Campaign. With the Election Campaign almost over, she felt able for a moment to let down her guard, and she exclaimed i cannot bear britain in decline. I just cannot bear it. That outburst was completely sincere and prophetic. Thatcherism was designed to halt and reverse the decline of britain. Margaret thatcher was a practical politician rather than a philosopher, and her legacy was the record and result of practical responses
To respond to these crises and to treat People Better in their own kick countries. Paleumbers, of course, compared to the large migrations we see overseas, but for many years we have been the leader in a program taking the most refugees from around the world and bringing them to the United States where they can restart their lives. This year, we are seeking to bring 85,000 refugees. So, an increase, and also to g 10,000 Syrian Refugees [applause] anne r. i get criticized from the right and the left on this one. Because friends in one direction say that is not enough and friends on the other side say we are worried you would let terrorists sneak inside the program. It is the most heavily vetted program of any traveler in the United States and it is ramping up sharply. Right now, we have over 40 of the Syrian Refugees and we will see larger numbers in the coming days. We are all over halfway to 85,000. Stay tuned. We have done a lot to try to meet the targets. I mentioned central america