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 government, an inclusive government, a government that will represent all the people of the ukraine. And that is critically important that they have the economic underpinnings so that they can gain the confidence of people. Thats why the imf provisions are particularly important, because it allows for the International Monetary fund to be able to go in, do the necessary audits, put the country on the right path and allow it to become a viable economic country. The Loan Guarantees is part of a package.
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 before the senate incorporates all of that good bipartisan work that theyve been doing along with the work that was done on the Senate Finance committee. I see our colleague from North Carolina here who has contributed mightily to that effort. Of course, the president of the senate, senator brown, who has been such an eloquent spokesperson particularly for those without political power and political clout. And i thank both of them for their efforts. Now, to be specific, the legislation that i i