mr. jahshan: mr. jahshan: -- entire process to see how the settlements' issue needs to be addressed and want to make a comprehensive review and we do not get these names. go ahead. mr. harper: anything that comes through the office of compliance for approval has to be signed off from the chairman of the house administration and the ranking member. i have been chairman since january of this year, 11 months and i have yet to have a single settlement come to my desk. we do know that since the -- inception of the accountability act in 1995, some have been paid out from 1997 to the present, total about $17 million on 260 plus claims. what we don't have, and we are is a breakdown of how many of those claims are member sexual harassment. i think that is a fair question and is something we should be able to come up with. included in that -- that is for the entire legislative branch, all of those claims. 2002, there were a large number of anthrax claims. in 2007, there were asbestos claims. so you have those th

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mr. jahshan: -- evening, i: good would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing focusing on the shakeup in the riyadh regional and international implications.

mr. jahshan: -- evening, i: good would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing focusing on the shakeup in the riyadh regional and international implications. over the past 13 days since the november,ifth of some serious and very significant changes and steps have been taken in the kingdom of saudi arabia that attracted andattention of media political analysts all over the world, as a matter of fact. know, there have been hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of articles and interviews conducted, written about the significance of these immediate,erms of midterm, long-term implications, domestic implications, regional implications, international implications, for the kingdom and for those like the united states -- countries that have interests and special relationship with the kingdom. although it has been a couple of weeks of hyperactivity at that , frankly, more questions have been raised then answered during this period. redo the titles of all of these questions, because that will keep us here until next friday, but i will raise a couple of these questions for the purpose a

mr. jahshan: thank you, jamal. and now for our second speaker, kristian ulrichsen. mr. ulrichsen: thank you for the introduction and the invitation. i will not reiterate what jamal khashoggi said, but will add my own thoughts on some of the changes we have seen which have been interpreted as has been said as varying degrees of power plays or of this sweeping away of the new -- of the old saudi state. again, i think it is too early to tell. what i would just say would be that i would think the saudi way we have known since 1963 that came into being has -- is slipping away. and we are seeing really the passing of the old guard. in part it's because of natural causes over the past seven years. some of the key figures in the old guard have passed away. in 2011, the defense minister for 48 years died. in 2012 the interior minister for 37 years died. in 2015, the foreign minister for 40 years died. and of course the king also passed away in 2015 in addition to his position as crown prince he was also head of the national guard again for a period of 48 years. so more by accide