Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., is facing a complaint from a government ethics watchdog for soliciting campaign contributions during a virtual Zoom call in her Capitol office.
“I thank the gentleman for yielding. This is an emotional debate. It s an emotional debate because we lose on a daily basis family members, neighbors, friends,
the conclusion that it has not really served their poll numbers or probably even their policy making having president biden basically being a 101st senator, leading on every one of these negotiations that have been happening in the senate on his key issues and key priorities. they re going to look at him now leaning back a little bit on those things, especially publicly, right? he s still going to continue to call them. he has 36 years in the senate. he has a respect, but i think they want to do as the president was saying is tell their story a little bit. they took this first year in their eyes to get a lot of that work done. they point to the arp for covid. they point to the infrastructure bill that remained bipartisan until it was signed by the president. so now what they want to do is tell that story. cedric richmond, senior adviser to the president, told me that this week, that they have to do a better job to representative
sanctions relate to the biden administration strategy. so, sanctions are not the silver bullet to changing behavior and they are not usually relied upon for that. if that were the case, we would kind of be disappointed over and over again. they are supposed to be part of a broader strategy. and that strategy is what is supposed to change behavior. and the biden administration knows that. that is why army rain is a big piece of it. a lot of military experts, people like representative slotkin, who you had on earlier, argue that maybe we need to arm them more. diplomatic negotiations are part of. it may be some covert actions that we do not know about or cannot talk about. so, they are not the silver bullet. the things i hear about that are a little concerning right now is not just the emphasis placed on that. it is also that these types of activities or actions you just talked about, like cutting russia off from swift right now, so quickly, it would backfire on us. we engage in trade wi