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of the house, announced her retirement. her statement comes on the heels of a similar announcement by congressman chaffetz and before that only a few weeks ago jenkins of kansas. that s three respected republican house members all calling it quits. is the president concerned about the numb of republican house members who do not want to be on the ballot next time and are leaving congress? no, and respectfully i would say that there are two groups of folks. in the case of congresswoman ross, she s been here 35 years and she s just decided it s time to retire. congressman chaffetz, i don t think there s any belief that you have to stay here for 20, 30 years. there s always going to be churns between election cycle
the time please consider the following policy. there are people on both sides of the aisle, different backgrounds, that come in to see the president and ask could you consider this and keep an open mind. that s what the president was doing. i have two questions. one foreign policy and one domestic politics. first, last wednesday the kremlin outlawed the open russia movement. the premier opposition group to the ruling regime in russia and the following day security forces were forcibly closing down open russia s office in moscow and other places. does the administration have a statement on this. i do not. i would refer you to the state department. my second question is on sunday congresswoman ross, a veteran of the house, past chirm
chance to see how his cabinet picks play out. it is only december 1st. these are the same people who whined and complained about hillary clinton s speeches to goldman sac. trump s supporters don t care. you can play 3,000 sound bytes, they ll go ah. i am going to get a kick out of ross and devos. they re going to have to fly economy just how and not flop private. it is going to be so rough for them being the trump administration. hogan, what do you think? less talk about the republicans side for a moment. it is all about respective. you maybe a little upset today because you had someone from
by 2030, but the next five years are critical. so, we must ramp up our efforts and increase our funding. we ve been able over the last eight to ten years hold the line on funding for pepfar, an initiative that basically the congressional black caucus, myself, led the efforts on and president bush signed into law. also we ve been able to maintain the level of funding for the global fund, global aids and tuberculosis relief act, which president clinton signed into law. we ve held the line on funding for that. also with the ryan/white care act and minority aids initiative led by congresswoman maxine waters. have i to tell you, this has been a bipartisan effort and we have to increase funding for prevention, care and treatment otherwise, as the report said, we will go backwards. i think this is a testament to how we can work in a bipartisan way. leader pelosi, congresswoman ross, late henry hyde, late tom