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That take care of their people and respect the human rights of their citizens. Ukraines gone through a difficult past. Ukraine is critically important to the United States. Its in a strategic location, it is very important to regional stability. We have a lot of our nato partners in that region. This is a very important country. The corruption that youre referring to was under previous administration. That Prime Minister, as you know, is now hiding in russia, and ukraine is starting a new govern...

In my view, is exceptional. And, in effect, theyve given us the opportunity to take this flawed system of setting a kind of medicare budget known as sgr, Sustainable Growth rate, theyve given us the opportunity to repeal and replace this slogged system with one that i think is going to make a huge difference in the days ahead by pushing the goal of good quality Affordable Care up and doing it in a bipartisan way. And i hope that these colleagues will take it as a compliment that the sgr bill now...

The presiding officer the majority leader is recognized. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Reid mr. President , this morning i came to the senate floor and talked about its groundhog year. Not groundhog day. What is going on here today is an example of what has been going on with the republicandriven direction of this congress for several years. What are we doing here today . Nothing. Nothing. Under the...

That measure the influence of care on the depression scale administered over time. We are going to be looking at outcomes in anxiety disorders, depression. We will be looking more carefully at people who are at risk for suicide and had we actually improved their chances of not having another that in general youre telling that you think we believe that we are having an impact on the Mental Health of the people we have treated correct. Mr. Chairman, let me just add to this. Sure. This is a tough a...

Mr. Prime minister, trying to fix the economy is an urgent crisis. In a little more than two months, president ial elections are scheduled. There are reports, rumors of postponing those elections. How confident are that ukraine will be ready to hold elections in two months, and how do you think it will that they will have Credible Elections that everyone will recognize . Starting with the first question, it is not just about ukraine, as i mentioned. It is about the Global Security. Let me remind...

The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 191, the nays are 230. The motion is not agreed to. The question is on passage of the bill. All those in for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise . I ask for the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the chair will go to a voice vote first. The question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from maryland. Mr. Van hollen mr. Speaker, on that...

Healthier learning environments for our kids. Part of this effort will be eliminating advertisements for unhealthy food and beverages in our schools. Thatnk we can all agree our classroom should be Healthy Places where kids are not bombarded with ads for junk food. Food marketing guidelines are tot of the larger effort inspire companies to think about how they campaign for food to kids. Kids watch thousands of food advertisements every year. 86 of these ads are for products loaded with sugar and...

It is clear by not voting we are rewarding russia with more power at the International Monetary fund while denying ukraine the opportunity to be more Energy Independent from Russian Energy sources. If members are willing to provide american taxpayer dollars from ukraine to pay russian gas bills, then we should en i would say by passing my amendment, the United States has the ability to be the strategic supplier to our nato allies and ukraine. It is worth noting that my amendment on l. N. G. Expo...

Do not. We would tell putins top cronies and partners in crime that we do not sand for corruption. I thank you. Thank you, senator mccain. Would any other senator wish to speak to the amendment . Let me thank senator mccain. As im sure the members of this committee know, this committee passed the minitsky bill that would have applied universal. It would not have been limited to just one country. It would have been applied to any gross violations of human rights anywhere in the world. If we had t...

A moratorium threatens key health and safety regulations. During the 104th congress, the house passed the regulatory transition act of 1995, a bill that imposed a regulatory moratorium pending the institution of a risk analysis and assessment regime. The committee on government reform and oversight, democrats in their dissent to the reported bill, observed that the legislation was illconseeved that it had unknown consequences. In particular, they noted the bill ignores interests of the average a...