Ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. It is just under 2. 5 hours. [crowd noise] the committee will come to order. Thank you for attending today. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on important position. The nominee today is John Jay Sullivan to be the u. S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. We have two distinguished colleagues of ours. We will allow them to proceed with introductions. I will postpone my opening statement. I asked the Ranking Member to do likewise. Until the nominees have been introduced. We are glad to be joined today by senators dan sullivan of alaska and ben cardin of maryland. Sullivanand senator has drawn the straw to go first. Thank you very much. Its an honor to be before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee again on behalf of my friend John Sullivan. To beport his nomination the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related. Although i oc
Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe
Years. The u. S. Has been without a defense secretary all year since the departure of former defense chief jim mattis in december. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Our meeting will come to order consistent with our policy to start on time. We will be doing that. Good morning. Today were considering the nomination of dr. Mark espy to be secretary of defense. We thank you all for being here today. We anticipate during your opening remarks, dr. Espy, that you will introduce any members of your family who are here and other support groups. It is standard we do have the eight required questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. Have you adhered to ethical regarding conflicts of interest. Yes, sir. Have you taken any actions which would prepare to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising legislative and oversight responsibility makes it important that this committee, its subcommittees and other appropriate committees of congre
From the central bank, which caused inflation. In the 14th meeting of the Specialized Committee for the production of government assets, 35 only from the properties of various Government Agencies were introduced for production. Before this , the minister of economy said that by the end of july this year , the revenue from the production of government assets has tripled from the first 4 months of the previous year. And the bed falls to the ground, but it doesnt eat 3,000,000 billion tomans in different parts of the country. There are halffinished projects in the country. Officials said that there are 80,000 halffinished Construction Projects in the country. Lets finish the work. In fact, people have been expecting this for decades. Things come to a conclusion that because the lack of Financial Resources has stopped. Will we approve all the projects that we do not have the masala to be fully allocated . It will take about 28 years for this existing project to be completed. Our 13th gover
The shaps at the head of the British Ministry of defense for less than a week, because, and six survivors, he stated, despite the fact that the crew of the challenger four people, according to the pencil, abs, the car, destroyed from the artillery to make up for this loss. London is not going. No, they got 14 tanks. Now we understand one less. What happens in the war zone is called money take the first challenger sad american portal 19 45 writes this is a gift to russian propaganda, but at the same time, the author adds ukraine will still receive abrams. And they can somehow influence the state of affairs, but the author immediately notices at some point we for sure, we will see the burning abrams, too, this is another example of tailing with western technologies. I remember the notes in the dividers of the count on the superiority of british tanks, but now we see that technology is not able to change the game so much. Technological universe of the site of the army of the United Kingdo