Second. Any changes . All in favor. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carried. Item 4. Sure reason miwelcome. Good morning, commissioners, i am going to start with the federal update, and last week the dignity and aging act was passed by na unanimous act. The federal Older Americans ability expired september 30th which i have been talking about provides vital communitybased services to 11 million adults and care givers each year. What the house passed was to extend five years, two years longer than the prior authorization. They provided a 7 increase the first year and 6 each year, totaling 35 increase over five year. They included language to make clear that aaa could engage to expand services outside of the act. They provided additional funding to provide the native american aging programs for the provision of Supportive Services and Capacity Building training. They removed title three e cap on families and older relative caregivers, increasedded research and demonstration at the u.
Systems for ukraine until further notice i and others sat in astonishment ukrainians were fighting russians and counted on not only the training and weapons but also the assurance of u. S. Support all that the o. M. B. Staff person said was that the directive had come from the president to the chief of staff to o. M. B. Yeah as you say kimberly some pretty damning testimony there from 2 people who are career officials career diplomats and while were waiting for this recess to end the hearings to take up we are going to that the republicans are going to get their opportunity to essentially crossexamine a both of these 2 witnesses and presumably thats something that the the white house is going to be very eagerly awaiting. Yeah because particularly given the fact that republicans up to now have argued that this is not been a fair process that this is not been objective in any way that up until now until these public hearings this has been held in secret they argue and we saw this at the
The september time frame, but i want to go back two months, to july, before the july 25th call. You testified, ambassador taylor, in your Opening Statement that it was in the middle of july when you understood that the white house meeting was first a condition on these investigations. Is that accurate . Yes. We were preparing and i agreed that the white house meeting was going to be an important step in u. S. ukrainian relations. So, in june and in early july, attempts to work out a way to get that meeting included a phone call. And so there were several conversations about how to have this phone call that eventually happened on july 25th. And you described in your Opening Statement a july 10th white house meeting with a number of officials where ambassador bolton used the term that something was a drug deal. What did you understand him to mean in hearing that he said used this term, drug deal . I dont know. I dont know what ambassador bolton had in mind. Was that in reference to a dis
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