Purchased. All right. Tonights guest speaker is chunging min lee author of the her met king. In this comprehensive study of north korea, he puts kim jong un in her spect i by tracing the rise of the ming dynasty and how the current leaders motivations, goals and choices have been shaped. Drawing on more than three decades of experience in asia affairs, lee a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and the International Institute of strategic studies shows how kims aggressive standoffs with world powers has put him at crossroads. The countrys increasing vulnerability to famine and crisis in the region. Now, please join me in giving dr. Lee a warm welcome. Ms. [applause] thank you very much. Its a real pleasure to be here, and i know that without my friends, i think, i would have had a very different audience. Its a real pleasure to be here at politics and prose. And i think the people who are most responsible for making me write this book, two of them are sitting in the audience. My ver
Reserve vice chairman for bank supervision. Idaho senator mike crapo is chair of the banking committee. Thank you very much. And would the witnesses for our hearing please come and take their seats and while theyre doing that, senator shelby cant be here for his questioning time and so hes asked for just like a minute to make a quick statement. Ill be real quick today. I just want to say i wont be here. Ive got to preside over a appropriation hearing. But i believe that president has sent twous two good nominees. One we waited a long time for the vice chairman for the supervision of the fed. I think these are outstanding nominees. I hope you the hearing goes well and we can expedite the nominees and get them in place. Thank you. Thank you, senator shelby. All right. The hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of mr. Joseph otting to be comptroller of the currency and randal quarrels to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system an
Reserve vice chairman for bank supervision. Idaho senator mike crapo is chair of the banking committee. Thank you very much. And would the witnesses for our hearing please come and take their seats and while theyre doing that, senator shelby cant be here for his questioning time and so hes asked for just like a minute to make a quick statement. Ill be real quick today. I just want to say i wont be here. Ive got to preside over a appropriation hearing. But i believe that president has sent twous two good nominees. One we waited a long time for the vice chairman for the supervision of the fed. I think these are outstanding nominees. I hope you the hearing goes well and we can expedite the nominees and get them in place. Thank you. Thank you, senator shelby. All right. The hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of mr. Joseph otting to be comptroller of the currency and randal quarrels to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system an
Reserve vice chairman for bank supervision. Idaho senator mike crapo is chair of the banking committee. Thank you very much. And would the witnesses for our hearing please come and take their seats and while theyre doing that, senator shelby cant be here for his questioning time and so hes asked for just like a minute to make a quick statement. Ill be real quick today. I just want to say i wont be here. Ive got to preside over a appropriation hearing. But i believe that president has sent twous two good nominees. One we waited a long time for the vice chairman for the supervision of the fed. I think these are outstanding nominees. I hope you the hearing goes well and we can expedite the nominees and get them in place. Thank you. Thank you, senator shelby. All right. The hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of mr. Joseph otting to be comptroller of the currency and randal quarrels to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system an
Statement. Ill be real quick today. I just want to say i wont be here. Ive got to preside over a appropriation hearing. But i believe that president has sent us two goodnominees. I hope the hearing goes well and we can expedite the nominees and get them in place. Thank you. Thank you,senator shelby. All right. The hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of mr. Joseph otting to be comptroller of the currency and randal quarrels to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system and vice chairman for supervision of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. And congratulations to you on your nominations to the important offices. I see that you have friends and family sitting with you. I welcome them heretoday as well. These two positions are critically important to ensuring a safe, sound, and vibrant Financial System. Were fortunate to have two highly qualified individuals to consider for the