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I ask that the call of the quorum the presiding officer without objection, the quorum call is suspended. Mr. Coats mr. President , thank you. Mr. President , when the senate last met i introduced together with senator durbin a resolution regarding our response to russias invasion of ukraine. That resolution which received unanimous support here in the senate called for a number of specific steps to punish and isolate russia for its actions. Among these steps we called upon president obama to impose sanctions on officials of the Russian Federation who are most responsible for the invasion of th...

Its not readily available. Finally, does the hesitancy on the part of the dod stand anyway from, is there concern about, about what we see Going Forward . Since 60 of the 103 billion of dod funding, and we are not in a position to identify the total amount of waste, is there concern Going Forward theres going to be some of which are described, mr. Johnson, i would suspect that our friends at dod would do differently than the way you described it in terms of changing standards and why the standards were changed. What do we do to help convince them that this is ultimately necessary . And again i...

The key to the Ranking Member. I have been very critical of the deal i thought it was a mistake but first we should have gotten the final deal that negotiated the interim deal with first should have made sure there was no path said we could negotiate the interim deals because the sanctions were working. I voted to ratchet up do u or do you want to function in the economy . We will continue to press the sanctions into the didnt have a functioning economy. I think that wouldve been the right way to go. But now we are here and we are here, and they think it is a very dangerous situation we are in...

Call. Breed, present, kim, present, mar, present, wiener, absent. Yee, present, we have a quorum. Thank you. Can we call the next item, please. Item no. 2, approve the minutes of april 10th shgs 2014. Can we have a motion . We have a motion and second . Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. We have a motion and second. Can we do that without opposition. I will have to take a roll call. Commissioner breed, aye, kim, aye, yee, aye, wiener absent. Item no. 36789 vision zero Progress Report and achieving vision zero information. Thank you. We have megan wier to provide an update on the vi...

Even better, the man has by doing so gained what we call street credit. Why is street cred important . Once you establish a reputation for the willingness and ability to use force and to be ruthless about it, you dont have to use force and conquer next time. You just establish a reputation as a nasty bastard and so people will, you dont have to wield power in order to have it. So he may stop here because he has now so much intimidated the ukraine that the ukraine will do his bidding. However, if he goes, if he goes farther, i dont think were going to do much about it either, because again, it ...