To replace and repair american weapons already in ukraine, as well as to train the ukrainian military, and more than 11 billion will go to current us military operations in the region, with a separate breakdown by branch and type of troops, the air force , navy, army and marines. What these forces will do in ukraine is not explained in the document. For life support the Zelensky Administration itself. The United States is ready to allocate almost 8 billion, this money is provided on credit until september 2025, while the bill specifically prohibits spending it on paying pensions to ukrainians, however, all these funds can be partially or completely written off, although not earlier than midnovember of this year, that is, the decision will be made after the president ial elections. We changed the law so 80 of all the money. In the us, at our defense plants, we have changed the approach so that all aid to ukraine turns into a loan. According to the requirements of the bill, ukraine must
Ms. Ten nee she spent the spent her the spe life walking through the village. The village of pulaski embraced and cared for her for nine years. She was often seen wearing a bright orange dog collar so hunters would know who she was. She had her own Facebook Page with over 4,000 likes. Sadly, bella hasnt been seen for several months and the consensus is that bella has passed on. Bella brought joy to this Beautiful Community in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains and the tughill plateau region. She was the village mascot and symbol of reciprocity of kindness. One compassionate resident reached out to an orphan bella when she needed help the most and she spent her life yielding back the warm spirit that marks the pulaski community. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition . Without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson i rise today to congratulate instructor at Central Pennsylvania Institute of science and technology f
The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were in the questioning period with the director of the fbi and the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from georgia for five minutes. Thank you so much for being here. It is wonderful to seal. I would like to say that given your distinguished and exemplary record of service, i am frankly on the extraordinarily up the mystic side that under your leadership we will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. I look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening the agency had some 1000 active terrorist investigations. To is that volume continuing strain the agency in terms of your resources . Dir. Wray it is a good question. Thousandsn to those of isis related investigations, we have a similar number two we would classify as homegrown violent extremists. And we would call those isis inspired. Lone wolfs who see loan wolves. We have a fair number of al qae
Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the department of defense acquisition Reform Efforts and we welcome our witnesses, ellen lord undersecretary for acquisition, technology, and logistics. Mark esper, secretary the army. Heather wilson, secretary the air force and james geurts assistant secretary of the navy for acquisition, technology, and logistics acquisition reform is one of the most important and frustrating topics committee addresses. Four years we have been warned that america is losing its technological advantage. I hope you have seen the work on the topic. Thats why the department of defense needs acquisition reform not just for efficiency or to save money, simply put we will not be able to address threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I went to witnesses to pay attention. We are still dealing with a trillion dollar after 35 program that continues to operate i
We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally blind. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He moved to nashville where they told him while there were no cures, he could Search Online for a trial. He found a regenerative Clinical Trial in florida, where doctors took cells out of the bone marrow in his hip, and then injected these into his eye. Three days later he began to see. His eye sight eventually improved enough to get his drivers license back and that he became an effective advocate for more support for Regenerative Medicine done the proper way, which we included in the 21st century cures act. Earlier this year he gave me the cane he used when he was blind, said i dont need it anymore. So i