The people here do not read ukrainian newspapers. Newspapers. Perhaps they do, but russian they dont. They dont know whats happening in russia. This is funny, i was there two years ago to receive the honorary man of the year in ukraine. There you go, man of the year in ukraine. Let me bring stephen in. Did you notice he just got checkmated . I understand this fixation on putin. I really do. Personally i dont care much about putin. I wish i was going to live long enough to see how his story ends in 20 years and evaluate his role as a leader of russia. I think its going to be a big debate, the pluses and minuses. I dont know how its going to come out but that would be an interesting did eight to have here today. Lets look at the elephant the room we havent mentioned. All this embrace thing of russia in the 1990s, all this wonderful things we did for them , but one we also expanding nato toward their borders . And you say so what. I find out where you live and i park all my military equip
House of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members fromis smiedy the morityndinity leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than theajitanmiri leaderand the minoty whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from washington, mr. Heck, for five minutes. Mr. Heck thank you, madam speaker. Tick to be ticktock, ticktock, tomorrow, count them there are 30 legislative days left before the Export Import Bank is gone vanished, disappears and each day that we fail to address this Vital Institution for american jobs we let the extruxists win. We let this obstructionists win. We let this impaway. And the irony of it all, as my dear friend from texas, congressman green said if we dont have the Exportimport Bank we would be scurrying around to try to develop to compete with every country in the world who h
So i think that tension needs to be resolved one way with the other, and i think it needs to be resolved around a more Foreign Policy guidance. The way it works now, lets change, since my day, is we used to sit down with people from the state department usually the deputy secretary, once or twice here and say whats on your mind, what you think of the important countries we should be concentrating on . I hope that when i was undersecretary there was more conversation, but theres no real guidance. And i think that there needs to be. The second thing there needs to be absolutely is a we organization of the bbg. The bbg has now have agency. Theres no ceo eric one of the strangest organizations in all of the federal government. The board itself is the head of agency, and the chair really has no more power than any of the other governors. Its kind of a zion to run the show. And by the way, im not sure, as the chair, the new chair nominated. Nominate, thats all. This is the way that administr
Meeting are generally the third friday of each month. Our next regular meeting will not be until january 18, 2013, from 1 oclock to four oclock here, San Francisco city hall, room 400. Call the Mayors Office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at 4155546789. Voice. Or 4155546799, tty. A reminder to all of our guests today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. We thank you for joining us and ken stein has an announcement regarding the bridge line. Thank you. We also want to invite people who are at home, they can listen via the bridge line, 4155549632. Usually the bridge line has the capacity for people to talk to us. Today there are technical problems. We dont have the capability. We do welcome peoples comments nonetheless. If you like to call monday, 5546799, tty. Email, we apologize for our difficulties. Thank you mr. Stein. Proceeding with agenda item number one, may we initiated roll call please. Present today
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