And its no wonder that they are trying to fight this war and use the ukrainians as a battering ram and activists as fodder against russia. This is essentially the repeat of the moscow talking points and there are people who are willing to repeat these talking points, unfortunately. For the u. S. Is obligated. First we have the first post your presidency. I dont think mr. Obama has any particular affinity or warm place in and so the u. S. Is now deliberating whether the first wave of sanctions is primarily personal, if they are sufficient, the fact that moscow did not invade, someone saying that this is a great achievement of the u. S. And european policy and yes, Angela Merkel did intervene in this language and she understands german. And she speaks russian and the fact that this is a plus. However as i mentioned before, the whole new toolbox, the whole new pattern of engagement that includes propaganda and economic pressure, and includes the price of gas for the ukraine now after the
I want to also introduce my wife who is a professor at George Washington medical center, and i say as a real job looking for cures for cancer. Also, i want to thank the National Press zero, and also rebecca, if you will raise your hand. That way the media will be able to also get the advantages of questions from the audience to another that is important to cspan also. I wanted thank the National Press Club Executive directors and staff liaisons. The photographer who does such a spectacular job and won the outstanding career award, and our audio people. We will need first with the senate, said rob portman. Thank you. Bob is right. We worked together in the past. It is good to be with him. He has worked with republicans and democrats on the drug issue and has been an advocate for not the current approach to drug abuse and the date to addiction but rather one that focuses on education, treatment, and recovery. This is one of the issues of that although we will not talk about directly is a
Quorum call mrs. Shaheen madam president . The presiding officer the senator from New Hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen madam president , is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mrs. Shaheen i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Shaheen thank you. Madam president , more than 50 years ago, president kennedy signed the equal pay act making equal pay for equal work the law of the land. And yet today, wage discrimination still persists. Today women i continue to be pad just over threequarters of what their male counterparts receive for performing the same work. More women than he have before are graduating from college, but over the course of their careers, they will each make an average of 1. 2 million less than a man with the same level of education. Unfortunately, thats not unique. Across a wide array of industries and within all different occupations, wellqualified women continue to earn an average of 77 cents for each dollar th
Frightened. The holocaust frightens people. Why is that . What is different . What is special, what is unique about the holocaust . Today i will offer you an answer to that question. I will talk for five minutes about my book, what is new about this book and why you may find it useful and i will take 15 minutes to summarize the central argument of my book which is my explanation, my answer to the question why did the holocaust happened in the last 12 minutes of my remarks i will return to the question in what sense may we consider the holocaust to be unique, to be in a category by itself not only among episodes of genocide but among all historical occurrences as in fact i think it is. As the title of my book implies, it is an attempt to explain why the holocaust happened. Up until now, we have gotten only partially insisted this question. The closest to books in print to an answer have been the histories of the holocaust, the narrative accounts and these suffer from the defect with reg
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