Governor but if you have a noncorporate of legislature is hard to get your agenda passed. You raise a good point. Lets talk about how we got into this mess. Haley barbour i believe when he was chair of the Republican Party made a decision that democrats didnt pay enough attention to which was in the best in electing legislatures, legislators and republican governors for a lot of reasons he wanted to do it but when reapportionment comes up we can bridge line in congress and have a bunch of people that believe what we believe which happens to be the tea party in Haley Barbours case govern america or at least be obstructionist to american progress. They did it and they did pretty well 20 years ago. That is why we are in the mess we are in. One of the points that i made to democrats is listen im just speculating here but one of the challenges to taking back Congress Might be that they gerrymandered these districts so effectively after they did that its really tough to win and so if you ele
Contributions, is that creating a problem more for democrats than republicans . Its the icing on the cake to a bad decision which was citizens united, and its going to lead to more money in politics, which i think is bad for democracy. But is it worse for democrats than for republicans . Hard to tell. I mean, i look at this in the democratic governors association, and again, not so loud like a broken record, but we get outspent. We understand that. Were in an environment where we need to raise money so that we can we compete, but weve got to spend our resources more wising than they do. When we do, we win. Thats why we won eight of the last nine races. Im really focused on democratic governors. Im doing it because i believe its going to mack a real difference for america, and we understand that were going to get outspent. We just got to be smarter, have better candidates, and actually implement the policies weve promised to implement, which is jobcreating opportunities for middle class
Down their driving ships around the caribbean trying to do interdictions, but back in 98 i had a chance to do a Diplomatic Mission going into venezuela and colombia. At the time venezuela was very friendly with us and accept this in there. When we pulled into columbia, quite a different situation. Was one of the few towns you could go around in safely. I have had the chance to watch how planned columbia has worked, the partnerships were developed with the colombians. In fact try have been down there dealing with their head of navy, and we are very proud of the way that they are taking on the regional lead. They are running very symposiums, bringing in other countries, and we continue to work with them and sustain an relationship. The key to that has been a continued commitment. I have to admit that as they see fewer and fewer resources devoted to the counter drug mission then began to get a little anxious because they perceive that as a as backing away from sharing the battle with them
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This hearing will come to order. The war in ukraine is at an inflection point. Counter offensive to reclaim its rightful territories putin is desperate. Forcing unwilling men across russia to join an illegal and increasingly unpopular war. Buying rockets from north korea, drones from iran, staging sham referendums. So funny that even governments friendly to moscow have said they wont recognize him. Make a mistake, ukraine continues to face a daily nightmare of pulling neighbors and countrymen out of mass graves and children going to school in basements or fighting for their very existence. Seven months into this war, putin is not where he wanted to be. Thanks to the ukrainian people, more than 15 billion in weapons from the United States and a Strong International coalition but it is also do to trying to isolate russia from the Financial System. To strip russia of revenues reserves and access to Global Markets. Ambassador obrien, rosenberg, i want to take a moment to come been commende