mr. mcnally is saying we have lots of letters from law enforcement officers across the country who wouldhank us for responding to a subpoena, or who thank us for our involvement in stopping something. >> i don't know anyone in law enforcement who doesn't see backpage.com and similar online sites as being a, not quite illegal accomplice, but being certainly useful tool, used by pimps and members of organized crime as well, to promote prostitution, including the prostitution of teenagers. >> obviously with child prostitution, they seem much more responsive to monitoring that than adult prostitution. >> absolutely. there's a big difference both as a business moral and legal aspect between prostitution, which is basically tolerated in most big cities in america. it's the key to the business model of backpage. that is how they make their money. but they -- >> i guess my question is, why on this website, then say it's goes against our user rules to post any ad for products or services usero or sale of which is prohibited by law. >> that's false, that's not true. prostitution is a separate cate

mr. mcnally. >> chairman comer lynndie member come at you for allowing me to testify. would also like to make three points drawing on my testimony. submitted for the record. one, new energy supply in the hemisphere will have real benefits if we allow them to be produced. member to come even if we produce more oil and guess here we will still be connected to the global market and have a vital national security interest in and around the persian gulf. three, the risk of oil price spikes must not and need not be an excuse to avoid interrupting the oil exports. the loss of iran's can be offset in the strategic reserves and increasing the saudi arabia. a nuclear iran would possess for the lasting risks of price spikes. to the first point, potential new and u.s. western hemisphere oil and gas supplies can confer benefits but whether we realize will depend on future regulatory policies. the benefits include lower import dependence when she strength and resilience to the disruptions and reduce the need to borrow abroad. new supplies anywhere outside of the middle east all else

mr. robert mcnally is the founder and president of an independent energy consulting firm.ndustry and in the previous administration. mr. mcnally served as senior director for international energy on the national security council. mr. martin durbin is the executive vice president for government affairs at the american petroleum institute. he is responsible for the policy. they have 450 members ranging from the largest oil and natural gas companies to the small and independent companies. he worked on the hill as a staff member in both the senate and the house. mr. gal luft is executive director of the institute for the analysis of global security. that is a think-tank focused on energy security and he serves as an adviser to the united states security council and is co-founder of the set america free coalition. we welcome all of the witnesses to the subcommittee. you all have five minutes to complete your written testimony which we have for the record anyway, and we will start with mr. nerurkar. >> thank you chairman royce, ranking member sherman and his team was members of

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mr. mcnally. >> chairman, ranking member sherman, members of the committee, thank you for allowing me to testify. i would also like to make three points on my testimony. submitted into the record. one, new energy supplies in the hemisphere will have real benefits if we allow them to be produced. number two, even if we produce more oil and gas year we will still be connected to a global oil market and pledge of vital national security interests in and around the persian gulf. three, the risks of oil price spikes must not and need not be an excuse to invade the dhaka avoid. the laws of girons because exports can be offset by halving strategic reserves and increasing production in saudi arabia. a nuclear iran would possess far -- pose far greater and longer lasting risks of price spikes. to the first point, potential new and u.s. western hemisphere oil and gas supplies could cover real benefits but whether we realize them will depend on future regulatory fiscal policies. those includes lower import dependence which would strengthen the resilience disruption and reduce the need to borrow abr

mcnally didn't stand a chance. not long afterwards my mother wrote to jb west the white house chief usher. mr. west, the president tells me that jack mcnally who is against selling the guide books in the beginning now says lots more could be sold on the way out. but he says this is your province and doesn't want to mention it which is rather sweet of him. i agree we can use the money, every penny is needed. not long after her commitment to history led her to pressure my father to support a unesco effort to save the egyptian temples which were going to be flooded by the construction of the dam. she wrote a long memo to jfk, which you can see downstairs, laying out the importance of the temples and suggested this would be a nice gesture to nasr as he promised in aramco not to interfere with them in saudi arabia. and she understood cold war diplomacy writing, the psychological political argument carries more weight than the economic one. the russians are building the dam as strictly an economic enterprise. by saving the temples, the u.s. could show they care about the spiritual side and realize th