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Countries, particularly in the african context in promoting democracy within a country like zimbabwe . Thank you. Sarah, do you want to tackle that . No . I can say a word. Maybe others will have something to say, too. One of the things i take from th tsvetas comments neighbors countries have a lot to offer, but they dont seize the opportunity. Knowing about this specific case, its the same for neighboring states to not take opportunity to play a constructive role with better insight, perhaps, i...

Threatening to cause the collapse of our country. President obama and senator shaheen seem confused about the nature of the threat. Not me. I want to secure the border, keep out the people who would do us harm and restore americas leadership in the world. Im scott brown and i approve this message. Because protecting the homeland is the first step to making america strong again. They dont call us the Granite State for nothing. Were tough here. I never back down for a fight for the people of new h...

Something that we need to change. [cheers and applause] thank you is a great to be here. Not where we wish we were. [laughter] but it is great to be here in the wonderful to be with paul again. We had quite an experience and i know lot of you think it must just be awful running for are your for president a Different Hotel and debate after debate with the primaries and the general and the adoring press. [laughter] but yet the truth is it is a magnificent experience because you get to see the coun...

So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. ...

Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their votes . If not, the ayes are 89, the nays are 11, and the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, h. Con. Res. 121 and h. Con. Res. 123 are considered and agreed to en bloc and the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table en bloc. The republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have attention the attention of the senate. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr...

Opportunity to give me a line rehearsed to please u. S. Donors. Its evidence that i collected indirectly and that came up in conversations about central and Eastern European democracy promotion. Again, my conclusions are not to dispute problems with u. S. Democracy promotion or its unintended negative consequences. But just to highlight that it can and has mattered and that its an investment whose payoffs go up and down in the short and long term as we saw in the first panel. But its an importan...

Toward a more secure, stable and prosperous future in afghanistan and toss that all away as we have elsewhere. Secretary carter thank you and we do have the opportunity to cement it. As he said in iraq and afghanistan, they are very different situations in two ways. The first is that as president ghani clearly indicated to me but he has said this a buckley publicly, he wants us there. We have a willing partner. We have a bilateral bilateral Security Agreement that we did not have in iraq. The se...

History without a fight. [applause] and nobody knows that better than the woman that we are honoring tonight. We admire tori clinton because she has sex fully thought to expand opportunity here and all around the world. Because without her, we would still be talking about universal healthcare as if it were some sort of pipe dream. And yes because she did put 18 million cracks in that glass ceiling. But she didnt get to do any of that stuff the easy way. Nobody in american political history has f...

Has been and is going to continue to be iran. I think the administration frankly has lagged far behind the house. We have been far ahead in pressuring iran. A lot of that is because of reuel. We have been united in the house in our effort to do that. I think that congressional pressure frankly is building, building quickly in light of recent events. I am looking forward of course to the conference report that we are going to see now from the National Authorization act where we are going to have ...

Senators talking about the passage of the russian trade bill, the vote on the floor of the senate a short while ago was 924. A look the Senate Continues in session with a vote coming up likely this afternoon, possible vote on the we had bep told there was a News Conference happening on cspan. Good afternoon, im here with my colleagues from the senate, senator leeber and senator graham and we are deeply disturbed by reports that assad may have weapononized some of his stores of chemical and biolo...