But if you might start there, secretary, what do you think the best economic leverage our and guidelines as they relate to timeliness and you made the point working with allies. I think the president has been clear and we have been clear russia has to be held accountable for the actions taken and also has to have a path to step back from what is a dangerous escalation unless it stops. I think with the actions the president has announced and illustrates serious attempts and in effective ways to start the process of increasing the isolation. The g8 is a very important meeting to russia. We have already withdrawn from preparations and we are on the path where i think its clear that russia can no longer sit in the g8 meeting pursuing the policies. We have withdrawn a trade mission that was supposed to be working with russia to continue making progress on the International Investment treaty. We have withdrawn a delegation that was supposed to be attending the paralympics, something we very
Good morning to all. And the committee will come to order. Before we begin today, i want to assure everyone that you did not accidentally walk in to a meeting of the energy and Natural Resources committee, which i used to chair. Our friend max bachus is off to do an outstanding job in china and this is still the Senate Committee on finance, with a storied history. Now, in the storied department, i learned recently that senator hatch was an outstanding basketball player in high school. And ive learned through my sources that he had a great onehanded set shot. Hes even in the Baldwin High School hall of fame for basketball. Now, i played a bit of basketball myself, so, senator hatch and i may try to figure out a way to get a regular finance committee pickup game going, except were going to probably try to see if we can find some arcane rules so that the young members dont make us look bad. I also want to welcome senator warner to the finance committee. Senator warner demonstrates continu
Profits that they make from their wrongdoing and we have the power in the appropriate case to bar someone from the securities industry so they cant live another day to defraud again. Speech treasury secretary jack lew says russia must be held accountable for its incursion in the ukraine and the is considering a wide range of options. His comments came during testimony before the Senate Finance committee on the president s 2015 budget request. This was the senators he replaced former senator max baucus who is now the ambassador to china. This is a little more than two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning to all and the committee will come to order. Before we begin today i want to assure everyone that you did not accidentally walk into a meeting of the energy and Natural Resources committee which i used to chair. Our friend m
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