That clause gives congress what People Markham and they referred to as the power of the purse. The power not held by other of the executive branches according to the constitution. A providing fence keeping the government running and functioning is one of the things of congress. And they cant even agree what to get started on getting that. Right letting the government agree on that bill, let alone a strategy for the house is proven to be a challenge. Signs that things were going well. Indicate most apparent on thursday. When a motion to begin a debate on the Defense Funding Bill fails for the second time this. Week prompting Republican Leadership sent members, Home Congress now only has about five days left to take action because members are off tomorrow on monday for the jewish holiday of the occupier, the speaker of the house, told reporters yesterday that he believes that congress is making progress his congress is making progress in its negotiations, and it anticipates resumed votin
and turning them into what they call new nato-quality tanks with advanced communication systems and weaponry. but some defense officials said that the main strategy here is going to be an insurgency, a guerilla-style campaign, because they are ware of the really glaring weaknesses of the ukrainian military. they won t be able to beat the russians in a face-to-face battle in a conventional war fought on a battlefield. and we saw in that assessment that came out from u.s. intelligence, that, you know, kyiv, the capitol, could be taken within 48 hours of an invasion. so what they re saying is that the strategy not just a strategy, but the strategy is for an insurgency led often by civilians. now, this sounds crazy, but remember that u.s. military was humbled in iraq and afghanistan by civilian insurgencies. and this won t necessarily be a civilian insurgency per se. while there are civilians who are arming themselves and training all across the country, in training sessions, they are al
some will say the ukrainian military is outmanned and outgunned by the russians. what do you say about that? fighting for this land because that s my modeling. reporter: so waiting to fight and to die. they might have to but a lot of the experts i was talking to said these regular soldiers probably wouldn t have to fight in the same way. the fact is that everybody is expecting that if russia does decide to invade they will overwhelm the conventional forces of the ukrainian military and it s really going to have to go to something like we ve seen before, an insurgency led by the military but probably involving a few civilians against a russian sustained occupation in
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jim demint on his way out. overseas, pope francis overseas, on a today mission to urge persecuted christians and their torturers to stop, holding meetings in cairo with religious and political leaders. he says he wants to bring a message of peace to a country that has endured an emboldened insurgency led by a local #specialreport affiliate paid president trump is rejecting a push to help bail out puerto rico from its $70 billion debt. correspondent steve harrigan has the latest on the story. health care funding for failed to agree to a final spending package this week, punting until next week. the island of 3.4 million people, almost half of whom rely on medicaid, is asking for another $900 million to pay for health care through the end of 2018.