thank you senator isakson. i'd like the testimony to signal to the people of the horn as well as the somali americans i recently met in minnesota and ohio, that the american people are very much with them in this time of need. thank you. >> thank you. dr. brigety. >> chairman coons 8 -- coops, ranking member isakson -- coons, ranking member isakson, thank you for allowing me to testify today. let me also say we appreciate the sorns and attention that congress has given to this crisis in the midst of so many other issues you have been grappling with this summer. i will discuss today the current situation facing refugees, our immediate response, the challenges we face in meeting their needs as more splice reach the borders, and our plans to work with the world community to meet those challenges and save as many lives as we possibly can in the coming months ahead. i traveled to ethiopia and kenya in july to ehave wait the emerging refugee crisis in the region where hundreds of thousands of somalis have fled. durin

chairman. >> senator isakson thank you very much for joining me. i would like to thank mr. konyndyk, dr. pham and mr. wouter schaap for your personal service, for the risk you have taken in order to develop relief and the leadership role that your positions have taken in the insight you have given us and the world as folks have delivered -- deliberated over this humanitarian crisis. as you have help a clear today this is the greatest humanitarian crisis facing the world today. it was foreseeable. it was one for which preparations were made and where there is investment that has made it less severe than it otherwise might have been. but it is one that can be expected to occur again because of the combination of governance, climactic regional economic and social factors in the horn of africa. so it is my hope that we will be working together and the people of the united states, the nonprofit community, private citizens to heightened public concern to strengthen international engagement, to not just respond to this immediate and very real crisis that will likely take tens of t

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isakson: i associate myself with what he said and i will support this bill when it comes to the floor at 12:00 today. on saturday i came to the floor at 2:00 out of frustration and made a speech critical of the negotiators as we were letting the clock run and had no deal. i was critical because we had pretty much had agreement that we were going to cut, we pretty much had an agreement that we were going to establish a select committee to do the cutting, but we hadn't agreed to a balanced budget amendment. we hadn't agreed to an enforcement mechanism on the committee to make sure they do the cutting. we hadn't agreed to triggers on accountability. i come to the floor today not frustrated, but feeling somewhat rewarded because on the three solutions negotiated, to those three component parts of this particular legislation, the genie is out of the bottle and history is about to be made. number one, on the debt ceiling increase, when the trigger was finally established, it means that from now on whenever this debt ceiling increase asked for by a republican or democratic president, it will

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isakson: i associate myself with what he said and i will support this bill when it comes to the floor at 12:00 today. on saturday i came to the floor at 2:00 out of frustration and made a speech critical of the negotiators as we were letting the clock run and had no deal. i was critical because we had pretty much had agreement that we were going to cut, we pretty much had an agreement that we were going to establish a select committee to do the cutting, but we hadn't agreed to a balanced budget amendment. we hadn't agreed to an enforcement mechanism on the committee to make sure they do the cutting. we hadn't agreed to triggers on accountability. i come to the floor today not frustrated, but feeling somewhat rewarded because on the three solutions negotiated, to those three component parts of this particular legislation, the genie is out of the bottle and history is about to be made. number one, on the debt ceiling increase, when the trigger was finally established, it means that from now on whenever this debt ceiling increase asked for by a republican or democratic president, it will

isakson new technologies.es, sir. >> congressmen called the work that you did in the committee, the concern about right now we've seen the export sort of hezbollah was able to launch a missile and say that it's controlled. the u.s. navy on the battle group with the support groups what is your comfort level that they will have the defensive to devotee protecting themselves against an iain he attacked the the to -- against an emp attack? >> ever since i mentioned during the clinton years when we had the big decrease in military funding we've been weaving of the hardening of our new weapon systems. they just are not hardened. as i mentioned, i had a huge problem with that in the congressional records put up and i questioned it over and over why do we feel for weapons at all if we were not pardoning them because the only time that we ever really need those weapons is against the fear and one of the things they're going to visit all of their open literature and workings is a robust emp lead out to all of the weapon

then the creators of twitter on what's ahead for internet users and twitter users with walter isakson. that gets underway at 9:25 eastern. >> seen as a testing ground for presidential hopefuls, republican candidates are gathering in iowa for some grassroots politics and state farm festivities. starting thursday, live from des moines, we'll interview the candidates and take your phone calls about politics. saturday we'll go to ames for the iowa straw polls where three of the past five winners have gone on to win the iowa caucus and two have won the presidency. road to the white house in iowa, this week on espn. >> all this week on "washington journal," a series on jobs in america and we're reairing the program weeknights at 8:00 p.m. eastern on espn 3. this morning's guest, from the chamber of commerce, martin ragalia. we're looking at the private-public partnership. let me just begin with how a public private partnership works in theory. ? guest: in theory you have the public sector, controlli the permits, laying the groundwork, drawing the parameters of the project. then the private