. >> chairman ros-lehtinen, ranking member deutch, my name is clair baheri.ant to thank you for the opportunity to share my story with you. i would like to request my written statement be included. >> without soaks. >> the baha'i community of iran has been the target of systemic and severe state sponsored persecution since the revolution of 1979. my family and husband's family have experienced execution firsthand. when the revolution began in 1979 i was 12. my father had been serving on the local spiritual assembly to elect the governing council in that city. as a result, our house was raided five times and finally 1980, my father and several other members of the assembly along with two other local baha'is were arrested and imprisoned. in prison my father was notified because he was a baha'i, his employment as an accountant with the ministry of health had been terminated and salary owed to him was canceled and his retirement funds which had accumulated over the course of 24 years in the civil service were repossessed. my family an i would visit my father once

miss baheri losing family members. mr. etemadi being in jail. thank you, for alizadeh, for bringing so much awareness to us. dr. george, for holding up the photographs of real victims of the persecution that is going on daily in iran. thank you for the brave work of your commission. we look forward to adopting their recommendations very soon. and to our audience, thanks for being here today with us. and with that, the subcommittee is adjourned. thank you, madam chairman. >> thank you. >>> the thesis of the book is that there's a whole group of people in america, in fact a big swath of america, that is being ignored, left behind, not included in the discussion i think for either party. particularly, though, i would argue the republican party. and that's -- i call them blue collar conservatives. you know, the folks out there that are working people, most of whom don't have college degrees. folks that really still understand the value of work and the importance of work and responsibility. people who understand the importance of family and faith. be