Advisor Jake Sullivan said the Biden Administration will unequivocally represent reject calling the votes of violation of ukraine sovereignty. He made these remarks at the White House Press briefing, the press secretary. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy monday. Ok. Tuesday. Oh, my gosh. Giving myself an extra day. All right. Well. Good to see you guys on tuesday. So we are closely monitoring the impact Hurricane Fiona is having on puerto rico and as the president has said, we are keeping the people of puerto rico in our prayers. I want to provide a brief overview of our response to date. On sunday, before the hurricane made landfall, President Biden issued an emergency disaster declaration to ensure the federal government has was ready to surge resources and Emergency Assistance to puerto rico. Yesterday, as you all know, the president called governor from air force one to discuss puerto ricos immediate needs as the storm made landfall. Karine and today fema administrator will be on th
White House National security advisor Jake Sullivan said the Biden Administration will unequivocally reject sham referendums in four russian occupied areas of ukraine. Mr. Sullivan called these votes a violation of ukraines sovereignty. He made these remarks at the White House Press briefing, the press secretary. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy monday. Ok. Tuesday. Oh, my gosh. Giving myself an extra day. All right. Well. Good to see you guys on tuesday. So we are closely monitoring the impact Hurricane Fiona is having on puerto rico and as the president has said, we are keeping the people of puerto rico in our prayers. I want to provide a brief overview of our response to date. On sunday, before the hurricane made landfall, President Biden issued an emergency disaster declaration to ensure the federal government has was ready to surge resources and Emergency Assistance to puerto rico. Yesterday, as you all know, the president called governor from air force one to discuss puerto ricos
Is chasing the drug demand in the United States, doing it with the currency of the United States and weaponry largely produced in the United States. One of the things we could do to help the Mexican Government is to help drive up the demand for Illegal Drugs by recognizing the demand that drives much of the controversy is within the United States. The second thing we could do to help secure the border is to recognize that when people are less desperate they dont crash borders. They use lawful processes to apply for new opportunities, they go places peacefully to try to emigrate the ways many of our parents emigrated peacefully. It has to be affordable, it has to be understandable and it has to be we should give people who come to the United States because they love our opportunities, committed no crimes where they came from men tried to live here without documents, a pathway to complete citizenship and welcome them. At the last debate mr. Sasse said congress was too dysfunctional to do
Mr. Murphy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy if were in a quorum call, i ask that it bees dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy i ask seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy thank you, madam president. Last week, the house of representatives voted for the 53rd time to repeal or undermine all or aspects of the Affordable Care act. This is beginning to be a broken record. I was in the house of representatives for a period of time, so i got the privilege on voting on 30 or 40 of those different pieces of legislation. Republicans, of course, shut down the government a year ago because of their pique over the Health Care Law. There are those that still h
At the last debate he said congress was too dysfunctional to do anything then focus on border security. Is Worker Visa Program antiquated and leaving out a solution to do with the 11 or 12 million illegal workers. All of them are connected. What he does not appear to know is all the illegal immigration in this country is a result of people overstaying the visa program. You cannot deal with the situation by focusing as he wants to on the border only. Also what he has to understand or should understand, in order to secure the border you will have to get a compromise. Democrats and republicans in the senate and house we have a compromise. In the senate and enough in the house to pass Immigration Reform. Ll notane or boehner wi bring it up to vote. Had a program and the right wing is supporting m actually torpedoed it. His approach is to do nothing only by closing the border and not doing anything else on the other aspects. This was a question related to border security. I want to hear wha