I could not identify more with our witnesses on the effect of the shutdown on your local economies.
Indeed the District of Columbia is a double-whammy victim of this shutdown.
Fixing a little by little is not going to resolve this problem for veterans.
I also can't bear the way in which our veterans have been made poster children by my Republican friends.
I have great fears that we will lose people like you as civil servants are going through the issues that now confront al...
the election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was a welcome signal that room for political progress in Somalia was ope...
we feel responsible for those taxpayer dollars, and in order to ensure that those dollars are going to where they need t...
We do a mix. We have always had contractors who have supported our efforts, but in some places we do have military.
the shutdown has had an enormous impact on our ability to coordinate foreign policy within the interagency framework
We were very supportive of the Jubaland agreement, and we are encouraging further agreements along those lines.
We do have private contractors assisting us in Somalia, but we are using a mixture of that, as well as direct support to...
What I would hope for--and it was DDAS Dory who talked about the military-to-military relationship.
One of our primary goals is to build a professional army there that is able to provide security and is professional and ...
Our primary goal is that there will be a strong federal framework that will allow the various components and various gro...
I do think the AMISOM model is a model that can be used.
From my perspective, as long as Iran is actively pursuing its nuclear program, we must actively work to increase the pre...
He won as a moderate--moderate in their system, not moderate in our system.
If Iran made a decision today to produce weapon-grade uranium, it could make enough weapon-grade uranium for a bomb in a...
