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I dont think it is very helpful. Thank you, madam chair for holding this hearing. I want to say at the outset i have an honor flight coming in shortly. I have somebody from bangladesh here. I was clair of this committeehair of this committee a while back. I went to yemen and mr. Connolly is right, there have been problems there for years. But i would argue that they certainly have gotten worse under the administration and you know it was this administration that claimed that yemen was a Success Story and clearly it has been anything but that. When we were on our way over there, there was an a ...

Gcc initiative or restarting the National Dialogue conference that collapsed in early 2014 without addressing the underlying issues. The houthi were reluctant participants in the National Dialogue in yemen but it was clear that they had no interest in ceding power over to a centralized government. As a result they withdrew from the National Dialogue, it collapsed, and the houthi took control over sanaa and now other areas. So why would the administration think that the circumstances have changed that would allow for a rekonconciliation to occur . It is naive and dangerous to think a political ...

Articulating that. As far as the hoothies are concerned, we have expressed an interest in establishing a dialogue with them going all the way back to frankly the time that i was still there. Up until now they have declined the opportunity to engage with us directly. Nevertheless, we have been able to communicate with them to pass messages to them through various intermediaries. And again, i believe that the hoothies are fully aware of our views and the positions that weve taken on their issues going all the way back to the early years of the 21st century. Thank you sir. You testified that Curr...

Undocumented workers serves to suppress wages overall. Fp there are people who can be hired and are potentially exploitable because theres the employers can hold it over their head the fact they could deport them or report them. That suppressed wages for everyone. Theres sort of two sides to the issue. When we dwet to the level of unemployment thats closer to full employment andy gave the examples of looking for workers. Theres a demand for workers then more people will be em ploiped. The challenge we face now while we see this sort of displacement at the local level is theres still a lot of s...

Minutes. On september 10th of last year, president obama announced to the American Public his plan to degrade and destroy the terrorist group isil. While making his case for americas role in the fight against isil, he highlighted our strategy in yemen and held it up as a model for success to be emulated in the fight against isil. Yet, a week later, the iran backed militia seize the the government. They continued to hail our Counter Terror operations in yemen as a model for success even though we effectively had no partner on the ground since president hadi was forced to flee. But more astonish...