but i do expect that our support to ukraine to be a primary issue that we're discussing here on capitol hill this week. and certainly that visit of our senate counterparts is an important one to reaffirming u.s. support for ukraine and stability in the region. >> now back on capitol hill, you've introduced legislation a year ago, actually, that would ban members of congress from trading stock and require all congress members, their spouses, their dependent children, to put investments, certain assets into a blind trust. why do you think it's needed? >> it's needed because, as we saw in the early days of the pandemic, when there were reports that various members of congress and senators were making stock purchases in pharmaceutical companies or selling all over types of stock, the general assessment of the american people was, of course, you know, here we are in the early stages and confusing of a global pandemic, and we have members of congress who are off buying, selling, trading stock. and it was that disappointment