Efforts on the ukraine. We want to get your thoughts about providing aid to the ukraine. Here is how you can way in this morning. The phone lines heres your chance to make your thoughts known on the phone line. cspanwj. R address is you can send us email to journal cspan. Org. To set up the legislative efforts on what will take place in ukraine, i am on the phone with the editorinchief of rollcall. We invite you to talk about the week ahead in congress. What does it look like as Congress Gets back this week . There are competing versions of this ukraine legislation. The is not the First Time Congress has addressed these issues. This is this this is the first strategical vote. Offered 150 Million Dollars in direct assistance. You will remember the president s late last week imposed is pretty tough. Anctions on Vladimir Putin that is where you heard lawmakers talking about. This legislation will have a test vote today in the senate as they return from their recess. The house doesnt really like this legislation because it includes money for the International Monetary fund. Host what is the issue with that . Has become political, of course. Youre hearing john boehner and some other republicans say this doesnt have anything to do with ukraine and the senate is trying to just lump this in. It in thisng mustache legislation. On the imf money and a vote to give aid to ukraine. It is not is great republicandemocratic issue. The Senate Legislation passed in a bipartisan vote before they left for recess. Oft you have two members the senate talking on the sunday shows about ukraine. We will hear them and a little bit. It suggests they are upping the game when it comes to this vote. Lawmakersot of traveled to the region to be able to talk about it and be informed on the issue. It issomething that is just an interesting dynamic when it comes to the politics on capitol hill over the last few months. You are really seeing pete will seeing people not really challenged the president on foreign policy. Besides the votes on ukraine, is there anything else significant as far as legislative action this week . The front page has a really good story looking ahead at what will happen with Unemployment Insurance extension. The senate will go ahead with this even though it has a very unlikely chance of passing in the house. Weve noticed we are getting a lot of leadership online from people doing google searches. This is something that we are really closely following. People are concerned about this issue. It has almost been an afterthought in washington. Some of this is politically involved. When it comes to the actual people, it is something that is very concerning to them. They are going to have this vote that will basically extend Unemployment Insurance benefits. It will likely not go anywhere in the house. We are starting to see a bit of a model political time and will it is starting to be a bit of a more political time. First primaries are ramping up and you are getting a sense that this is an election year. Do from everything we be for thoseill midterm elections. Host when are they scheduled te off again . Guest they are gone for two weeks for an easter recess in april and then of course there will be a memorial day recess. It will be plenty of time when they are not here. They have got a lot done this year. You will see paul ryan present a budget in the house and Senate Democrats said they are not going to do a budget. That will get them busy in the next few weeks. I dont expect anything major. A dont have any must do items. A lot of them are calling the ukraine aid a must do item. Bellantoni from roll call, thanks a lot. You heard her talk about the package the senate will consider in a test vote when it comes to aid in ukraine and bloomberg talked about it as well. Just to reiterate, a 1 billion Loan Guarantee to the country is what bloomberg says will happen. For her first 45 minutes, your thoughts on congressional aide to ukraine, these tests votes, the money involved, and your message to congress. The numbers again twitter is cspanwj, and our email is journal cspan. Org. With anthony in washington dc on our independent line. Good morning. Caller i think we should give some aid. We are the speaker one voice. We have to speak with one voice. Everybody is criticizing with the president does before he even does it. Putin is doing what he is doing. We have no solidarity whatsoever. What you think the biggest benefits of aid to the ukraine will provide . Caller the Financial Aid will their economy. Their economy is not in a great shape right now. It would give the citizens of ukraine a little bit of hope. The house version of etude ukraine looks at such and this is courtesy of bloomberg your thoughts on Congress Giving aid to the cream. Up next is john from texas on the republican line. Caller as think we need to stay out of it. I just think we need to stay out of it. Host jim is up next from portland, oregon. Caller i dont know if i have a strong objection to that but i do think we need to keep in mind this whole crimea crisis was reallyby the u. S. Encouraging the writers to foster a coup in the ukraine. When we foster a coup and then this whole thing is part of this neoconservative aggressive policy of the u. S. Treated it is not helping the u. S. When it comes to aid, is there a dollar figure you are tolerant with . Where do you draw the line . Maybe i would say that half a billion dollars. I think what we want to do is have ukraine stable and then not provoke russia into anything more. And then also giving some support to the people on the street of ukraine. Host carol from twitter says this the phonelines will be on the screen as we go throughout the morning. In the New York Times this morning, Michael Mccaul takes a look at the issue. He was under the Obama Administration. He was an assistant to president and and ambassador to the russian federation, adding this this morning darryl from defiance, missouri, good morning. I am against any foreign aid to the ukraine. Why should we have to spend any more money . We put our puppet in there, it has not worked. It backfired. We dont need to send another dime. Where are we going to get it from, china . We not have interest in ukraine . Are we no, because what going to do . Put missiles in there to threaten the russians . This is crazy. We need to take care of our own people in this country. Georgia,renceville, edward. Caller good morning. To say we should have plenty of cut plenty of money to give to the ukraine. Obama has spent all of our money. To of that money he wasted build these projects that turned out to all go bankrupt we are. Oing to have to have the money we should not have to have wasted almost 2 trillion. When it comes to the aid itself, do you agree or disagree with it . Caller i do believe we should help. Putin is nothing but a thought. He is the same as hitler. Hitler went into poland. Right now they are going into the ukraine. He doesnt belong in there. People that were calling and saying we should not do they wont help us. Host on twitter you heard our first phone call of the morning talking about that effort being made in congress. We are asking about your message to congress when it comes to eight on the ukraine. Your message to congress on the idea of aid. The phonelines dick durbin recently returned from ukraine on the sunday shows yesterday. He was asked about the aid the about sanctions towards russia. [video clip] stanceeed a bipartisan by the senate and the house as quickly as this week in supporting ukraine and the sanctions against russia, in support of a loan to the ukraine so they can weather this storm as the economy gets back on its feet. Politicalhave intrigue on capitol hill undermining our support and declaration that we stand behind ukraine. Do you think there is going to have to be military aid sent to ukraine . Military food now. Shouldnt it be something more than that . It could be, and i think it should be. They are not asking for american troops nor are we offering them. Kelly was right about that. Senator i asked was right about that. This army in ukraine was devastated by you my code which. By yannick kovacic we have to strengthen them and help them with advice. It may come to small arms. Keep them on the table. Up for the time being lets have a Ukrainian Army get back on its feet. Durbin on the shows yesterday. We will hear from senator ayotte in just a moment. Ukraine orders its troops out of crimea as russia seizes a naval base. About yourng thoughts on an eight to ukraine. Independent line from gaithersburg. First of all, very few people are mentioning [indiscernible] gave the Third LargestNuclear Arsenal in the world. Russia made it into. It should not be an option. [indiscernible] lots of people are saying its russia and ukraines business. People who fought with blood, fox with lives for their democracy against a extremely corrupt government. Dont want to be under russian influence. Please do not talk about issues as if ukrainians dont exist. My family was participating in it and people were giving out their last money from food and supplies. Coming at their own expense. It simply shameful. What should congress be doing at this time . I think they should give Financial Aid. The United States gives huge amount of money over the course of these 20 years. Host marcus from st. Paul, minnesota on our democrats line. Hello. Caller good morning. We should be definitely giving ukraine aid. I just dont like the fact that tieblican Congress Wants to the Koch Brothers keep them out of trouble. We have people on unemployment. Things those two actual should be out of it. Just get them funded. A Million Dollars in loans, direct assistance, what do you think . Caller i think it should be a lot more. Putin is not stupid. He sees the United States government is in turmoil right now with republicans fighting against everything that obama wants to do. We dontwing the world ever act together. It is not an easy job to do. Obama is in the netherlands as he attends the nuclear summit. She dressed the possibility of additional sanctions against russia. There has to be consequences that news provided today, on the fox news website. Alabama, independent line. Good morning. Caller i would like to say something. First of all, thank god, the president needs to wake up. We dont need to let him take over little countries. We aint handling our business in america. What that means for a two ukraine fo two r aid to ukraine . Caller they are going to have to get aid. Host next call is from kentucky. Caller as far as Financial Aid for ukraine goes i think we should support our own infrastructure financial lives. As far as military support goes, i dont see any problem with posting a couple of thousand troops over there to try to keep the peace. They are overrunning military bases over crimea. There is no point for that. Before russia annexed them they were part of ukraine. Ukrainian government fought for this. They came from the ussr after the ussr collapsed and they fought for what they have to. Did and they thought like we did. During the American Revolutionary war we fought for our independence and thats what they are doing now. The really is no point. This oped section in the Washington Times ethan from kentucky, good morning, republican line. Good morning. Host jack is up next from minnesota. Independent line. I would say to congress i have already said congress, held no to 1 billion. It is not alone it is a gift because ukraine is a basket case. They already bought into the meal liberal bs into the neoliberal bs for the last 20 years. Going to give a billion dollars to a bunch of max boot wasns on yesterday saying that is just propaganda no, there are six neonazis in the government. There are pictures of them with naziy salutes with salutes and swastikas. The whole thing is our doing. The lady, wherever the health she is from host your reaction the reaction from your legislatures when you talk to them about this . Caller of course you dont get to talk to your actual senators. They said they would pass on my message when i asked them and insisted that they do so. There is no law against sending voluntary taxes to pay for foreign adventures like this. If you go to the valley news, they attached a New York Times story. Member when we talked about the ,wo legislatures in the ukraine dick durbin was one but the next one talks about kelly i got kelly ayotte. Senator ayotte talking about aid to russia, 18 ukraine. Here are some of her thoughts from the sunday shows yesterday. [video clip] i appreciate what the president did with sanctions. I think we need to do more with sanctions, including sanctioning the entire financial sectors of the russian economy, as well as looking at the energy sectors. The russian economy is a one trick pony. Their total focus is on national on natural gas and oil. I think we could have a Significant Impact on putin and that he would get the message. In addition i think for the military assistance president yanukovych, essentially he gutted the ukrainian military. I think we can provide more assistance to them in that regard. Do you think the United States would actually be willing to do that . We sent them military meals for their troops. Should we do more . What kind of military aid do you think we ought to send . More innk we can do terms of Communications Equipment we can help them with, technical assistance. In addition they have put in a request to us and nato for small arms. I think there are things we can do that dont involve boots on the ground but also really helped him stand up and help their military. Had theion to that, we trucks. I think that needs to be returned to the black sea. Eightweek considering aghtweek from politico tweet from politico concerning the situation you it comes to looking at looking at aid for the ukraine, the senate is taking up a test vote today. We want to get your thoughts on it for the remainder of our time this morning. Ohio, independent line, good morning. Caller i believe we should up the sanctions on them, on russia and putin. A we are going to give them billion dollars i think it should be used for small arms. Host you dont mind the military aspect of aid . Caller we should put a borderline where they should move further into ukraine. We know we are not going to get them out of crimea. They are going to be there for a long time. And they already had bases there before. Host parry from pennsylvania, good morning. My comment is on the extension of the unemployment benefits. It seems like they are going to turn their back on us again, according to the reporter you talk to earlier. Has our government turned their backs on us once again . Host the Supreme Court hears the case concerning the hobby lobby. Takes a look at the case turning their attention to justices and their religious beliefs. Heres the headline celtic village, illinois, randy, good morning. Village, illinois, randy, good morning. Caller i heard on the radio the senate is going to get together and pass some longterm unemployment thing. I have heard the house is going to have a little bit of problems. I would like to see them get together and listen to the 2 Million People that are looking for some kind of help from the house. Pastld like to see them that first before they give any kind of aid ukraine. The people of the United States and needed to more than the ukrainian people now. That is my thing. Host what do you think about the idea of aid to the ukraine . Rectally onthink the idea of the 18 ukraine should it happen or not . Aid to theof ukraine . Should it happen or not . Caller i think we should give sanctions. Host that is randy from south village. The phone lines you can tweet us and facebook us as well as well as send this send us email. From twitter some other stories taking place, this is nick from the wall street journal talking about mortgage tax breaks richard is up next from lake placid, florida on the independent line. Caller good morning, thank you cspan. My message to congress would be not allow would be do not allow this president to start a nuclear war with russia. When we look to foreign policies, it is a disaster. Mexico gave weapons to the drug cartel people, which ended up killing hundreds of people, and we still do not know what went on with that situation. Are focusing on aid to the ukraine, what do you think about that the echo about that . Caller i think that would be a waste of money because rush is going to do anyway. Most ukrainians are russians. If the ukrainian people want to separate than they have to be united behind that cause. You have probably heard some people mention loans and direct aid. You think one works better than the other . Caller possibly for food and medicine and something for the civilians, not for military aid. The wall street journal takes a look at privacy. This is something you will find in the special section of the wall street journal. Some of that some of the statistics say saying they believe current laws are not good enough protecting peoples privacys. 64 say they clear their cookies and browser history, 41 says they deleted or something they cookies, andabled 36 said they had not used a website because of asked for their real name. Some of the other steps taken are shown in the piece as well. From colorado, here is michael on our independent line. Caller i think giving a to you the ukraine that giving aid to ukraine is a mistake i think giving aid to ukraine is a mistake. Russia offered them a 15 billion loan. I dont think it is smart. I dont think there are neonazis over there or anything. We just have to let it play out. Host why do you think our aid would escalate what is going on . Caller russia wants that military base in crimea. Fermented by the cia and the first place. We did put a bunch of eight and their. We kind of got a backlash. Host bill from ar