Legislation to support ukraine and its urgent effort to meet its current crisis, including building up its Democratic Institutions. Mr. Speaker, russias land grab in crimea violates the Core Principles of several bilateral and multilateral agreements and treaties between ukraine and russia. The buddha pest memorandum, the United Nations charter, as well as the hell sinka helsinki final act. This includes strong sanctions against russians directly responsible for the aggression. H. R. 4278 also authorizes targeted sanctions against ukranians involved in undermining the democratic processes and provides assistance to the ukranian government for identifying and recovering stolen assets. It is after all these criminal officials, including and especiallyiana could he vitch yanokovich who have so harmed the ukranian people. Another key provision of the bill provides support for ukraines democracy and Civil Society and i want to recognize the importance of supporting as well the faithbased gr
Ago you could have pumped out of all of lois lerner emails and dumped them on Senate Finance and ways and means. You did not do that. The eventually negotiated to my consternation a subset of all of her emails. I find it less than helpful and i find youre talking about reduction in time to inappropriate when you couldve given ways and means all lois lerner emails in a matter of seconds. It really is that simple and i assume they have access to them. So i appreciate we will have to work with you to prioritize and we willingly always have. In the meks of the document production in which there are massive numbers of potential documents, we will particularly prioritize. For today for the record on behalf of people on both sides have spoken, lois lerner emails, all of lois lerner emails is the highest current priority of this committee and will remain so as long as im chairman. So im not going to get into january. I believe if your team had been actively working in a matter of days he would
Are branded and other resources. They stated that this fire jumped to this building to the left and everybody will be pushed back. You concede the hoses, theyre ready to go. We do know that there are no injuries and this fire started about 5 30 a. M. Off of mckee and one on one. This is an industrial area. They tend have metal and that is why it is too dangerous for them to even think about going on the roof. You might have heard this explosion and what theyre doing theyre using multiple ladders and spring water down to the building. They have multiple buildings under fire. As far as the people live in this area to the left, there is an apartment complex right across from this area. What theyre doing right now, theyre telling people that if youre inside, you should stay inside. They did not have a shelter in place but for this particular street, these people are said to stay in their homes and a lot of people saw this and they just wanted to leave. The Fire Department stated that they
Now morning fog, back in the forecast as we head into early next week and with that said we are going to cool things down. So more details on that coming up in a moment. Quickly looking at the bridges around the bay area, we are not looking at any hot spots. Lets start off with a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, the westbound trip looking good, the meter lights are off. San mateo bridge, drive times 12 to 15 minutes. Golden gate bridge looking good despite fog. Pockets of fog for trips into San Francisco. But if youre headed to the richland bridge, things are clear, especially on the east side. 4 04, the latest happening right now, we are expected to get the verdict in the murder trial of oscar pistoruius. He is accused of killing his girlfriend last year. He could be sentenced to life in prison. If he is not guilty, he could face a lesser charge. There is a murder out of south africa the judge may be leading toward thinking premeditated murder has not been proven. A vicious fig
Quorum call reid mr. President i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. I ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel Robert Stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e. Salas. 606 with the exception of Brigadier General john k. Kelk. And then 607, 608, 609, 610, 611 and all nominations on the secretarys desk in the air force and army. That the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be to intervening action or debate, that no further nominations be in order to any of the nominations and that any related statements be printed in the record, that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legisla