The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today and to the witnesses for joining us today as we examine the current state of the u. S. Russia relationship and the strategy to deal with the Russian Federation. Its timely to assess the relationship with russia and as weve recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the events that led to the collapse of the soviet union, the fall of the berlin wall, solidarity, selection, victory in poland and the baltic demonstrations among others. Many former soviet states had become prosperous democracies with memberships in nato and the eu. Mr. Putin has taken russia down a much darker path. Today Many Russians suffer with oligarchs enriching themselves to control the major industries. Russia rates its elections to ensure onlensure a week from und politician speak the cut. Russia is targeted and expelled humanitarian organizations and three Media Outlets labeling them as foreign agents. The russian people are in humanity imprisoned a
Community, serving on many committees. In 2015, she began to volunteer as a hotline operator with trans lifetime. She launched and sold a dating site called honey jar. Kenya, you are driven and talented, and you will go far in life. Thank you for invaluable contributions and engaging inspiring black trans women. Kenya, we see you, and we stand with you. Im just going to tell you a little bit about felicia flames. Come to the podium, felicia. [ cheering ] [ applause ] now, felicia and i lived in the same neighborhood for over 20 years. I met her when i was knocking doors. When i said how come i dont know you . She says, how come i dont know you . She started talking to me and telling me her stories. Of course, i didnt knock on any more doors because i was completely enthralled with her stories. She won me as one of her biggest fans. Its one of the reasons i wanted to honor her today. I have to say let me tell you a little bit about felicia. In 1966, felicia was a significant figure in t
Supervisor safai so first, please add me to this important designation. I had the great privilege of working for almost a year and a half in the Clinton White house, and the main work that we did was with the native american community, and at that time it was with the 558 federally recognized tribes was one group, but there was also a special group that they talked about, and that was urban indians. Those that lived in urban centers that were not recognized, that were not on the map. So we went out of the way with president clinton. We hosted the First National conference for native americans with president clinton, so thats something that i carrie with me to this day. So i really appreciate supervisor ronen, supervisor brown, addres well as the enti Community Coming out for this important item. Secondly, im moving for landmark designation for 4767 through 4776 Mission Street. Both of the the Royal Bakery Company was built in 1935 and is one of San Franciscos most exuberant examples of
Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
Volodymyr zelinsky to investigate whether joe biden sought to interfere in a conflict of interest probe of the Ukrainian Gas Company for which his son hunter biden worked at the time trump was with holding nearly 400000000. 00 in aid without explanation under fire trump denies using any pressure what these guys are doing democrats are doing to this country is it grace but theyre going to tie up our country because frankly this so tied up this so its good up as the director of National Intelligence testified here on capitol hill President Trump was at the United Nations talking to staff he told them he wanted to know who told the whistleblower about his phone call adding that they were close to a spy and then he said something that sounded menacing. According to the whistleblower several senior u. S. Officials were concerned by the president s call now exhibit number one in hearings to decide whether to impeach donald trump john hendren aljazeera washington. Still ahead on aljazeera bri