Of our continuing effort to lower healthcare costs on behalf of the American People. We promised in advance of november 2018. Where we given the opportunity to serve in the majority, we would focus like a laser beam on driving down the high cost of lifesaving Prescription Drugs. The American People pay more for Prescription Medication than any other developed country in the world. We pay more than canada or australia or japan or great written or france or germany. Often times, five or six times the amount for the same drug manufactured in the same location. It is unacceptable and it is an emerging bipartisan consensus that we need to do something about it. Hr three is the vehicle to accomplish that objective. By finally giving medicare and the federal government the power to negotiate lower drug prices on behalf of the American People. We will be moving forward expeditiously in advancing this legislation over the next few weeks. Let me now yield to my distinguished vice chair of the ca
, the first one is financing, it is financial opportunities, it is opportunities for the development of production, unfortunately, lending, the involvement of Financial Instruments in our country is not developed at all, i am not only talking about military equipment, it is generally, in my opinion, business lending does not function normally in for ukraine, the second thing is, secondly, we have already gotten a little used to turning it off electricity, yes, but now we see a largescale shutdown of electricity, including by manufacturers, i think that over time we have to somehow stabilize this system in terms of excluding manufacturers of weapons of military equipment and Unmanned Systems and other systems necessary for the front are allocated to priority, because now the lights are turning off, including at our production ones. Due to their expansion and scaling, not all of them are now equipped with autonomous electrification systems, generators, etc. , but we are working on this a
The ministry of defense, more than 12 billion dollars are provided for there, which actually allows ukraine to allocate a package of 1 billion each month, and for this 1 billion, you can take weapons, stocks of the ministry quite quickly defense, which allows us, in principle , to stabilize the situation on the front line, if we balance it with our means of mobilization and fratrification, etc. , ramshtein also demonstrated that there is support from other european countries, in particular. There is germany again talked about the initiative with air defense, about 1 billion euros have been collected, where a part of these funds has been transferred precisely by powerful countries, and some countries themselves will supply certain means of air defense for ukraine. Also other countries, in particular the netherlands there announced that they are transferring a certain batch of upr Armored Vehicles to ukraine there, it is actually such a dutch modification of the american bt. M113, which
2015. On our threehour program this morning, well be talking about police reform, u. S. National security challenges in the middle east, and the state of the u. S. Auto industry. But we begin this morning with the renewed debate in the country over the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship. With republican president ial candidate donald trump and several of his fellow gop contenders now calling for an end to the practice of granting automatic citizenship to anyone born on u. S. Soil, were asking our viewers to weigh in on this latest debate over immigration policy. Should the u. S. End birthright citizenship . If you think yes, the number for you is 2027488000. If you say no to ending birthright citizenship, the number is 2027488001. We also have a special line this morning for americans whose parents were foreign born, those firstgeneration americans can call in at 2027488002. A very good thursday morning to you on the washington journal. We begin this morning with a concept of bi
Talking specifically about the sixday war, i came to the understanding or at least this is my argument that you should see the war in a global context because even before were starting to deal with what nasser did on the 13th of may and why he acted the way he did when he received that memo, webbed think about the fact we should think about the fact that the whole developing world was experiencing a severe economic crisis at the time, and all the countries that fought the sixday war were developing countries. Some were more developed than others, israel more than egypt, but they were all developing countries. And what happens in the mid 60s is basically the end of a business cycle. A decade beforehand, in the mid 50s, everybody looked, lets say, in places like the u. S. , in washington, in new york, even in moscow. They looked at the developing world like people looked at china until two years ago. Or beforehand the way people looked at japan and thought it would rule the world. They s