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I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this ...

Good afternoon and welcome to is newly renovated headquarters. I am the Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. I am pleased to welcome you to todays important and timely commsby examining cent approach to the middle east. We will explore prospects for an effective u. S. Military role in the region, especially given current news from northeast syria. Great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollock, we are also pleased to welcome back senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program after a oneyear fellowship at the department of defense. We are happ...

Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 36. Twothirds of the senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the veto of the president of the United States. The senator for illinois. Mr. Durbin mr. President , i ask consent before the roll call to be recognized to make a unanimous consent request. Id like to take that opportunity now, unless theres some other item of business before the senat...

They conducted air strikes. Theyve conducted artillery strikes. Must population displacement that has been we told that since they started from the violence and i believe that we have theyre holding grids in sport unfortunately yet another humanitarian crisis in syria. Also coming up he released imprisoned journalists and made sure that women were in his cabinet and made peace with his neighbor for that and more ethiopias Prime Minister. Is receiving the 2019 a nobel prize for peace. With regard to the conflict with the a trend government which lasted for years we wanted to stop for the common...

What we are doing today. This whole festival is about the idea that we all have a stake in government. Of our and we as citizens should be more engaged and better informed as a way to motivate civic participation tams complicated and simple as that. For 10 years, the texas tribunes journalism, we have tried to give all of youened everybody else in texas and elsewhere, a way into that conversation. It is Public Service journalism in the ideal. We believe in it, we believed in it then, we believe in it now. Your being here makes an enormous difference. It tells me that like all of us at the trib...