Longer until there is a legitimacy crisis, so we need to think about some big ideas to get us out of this moment. When did the twoparty system starts to break down, who is to blame . I have a different interpretation of when we actually had the twoparty system. People would say weve always had a twoparty system and thats true, but i would say that we only had a genuine twoparty system s since about 2010 and thats when its kind of gone haywire. We had two parties that they were overlapping and there was a bit of incoherence and where the party stood. Really since 2010, we have two parties with no overlap and that is when we had a twoparty systehave a twopartysystem andl institutions are not designed to work thissdesi way. The framers were very concerned about having the two parties and our system requires an incredible amount of compromise and negotiation, fluid coalitions and the twoparty system as it now operates doesnt allow for that. In 2010, the two parties were overlapping in what
Power lines were damaged, fortunately people were not injured. Over three hundred strikes on six cities and villages were carried out by the russians during the day in the zaporizhzhia region. They were mostly fired from artillery. Gulyaipole, robotyne, malynivka and Mala Tokmachka were targeted. Also , the enemy launched 59 drones and carried out airstrikes on these settlements, informed the head of the region , ivan fedorov. Due to enemy shelling. In the region there is destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities, people fortunately survived. March 2022 remained in the memory of ukrainians as a place of fear and despair. Even two years later , the housing destroyed and vandalized by the russians continues to be rebuilt in the kyiv region. We will see the story of the family that survived the occupation of gostomel later. Five, five fired at us. Around us , you can imagine whether such luck or such happiness broke us, of course, we were damaged a lot, but our ho
Modernization. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to other. This is or second hearing on the va. Gov bugs and the struggles they have created f veterans to access their benefits. Id trying welcome o witnesses back to the discussion on these issues. The number of veterans affected now exceeds 120,000. To recap about 32,000 veterans submitted their disabout it compensation claims through the website. But the claims were never established in the system that processes them. This has been happening since 2018. In addition, roughly 81,000 veteran and family members request to add or remove dependents on va. Gov as the spread saysor system was not processed causing them to be overpaid under paid. This has been happening all the way back to 2011. On top of that, other veterans were unable to access the notice of disagreement form on va. Gov to appeal denials of their claims this. Went o for about five weeks before being discovered. I understand that o witnesses have an update on the nu
As noted senate helicopters work on an extension of federal Aviation Administration programs, currently they expire on friday. Next virginia democratic senator tim kaine talks about the faa reauthorization legislation, and why he opposes parts of the bill. Senator cain was one of the ten senators to vote against beginning debate on the measure. Madam president i rise today, certain by now some of the staff have million rised speech im about to give because its the third time that i will have given it in the last two weeks on a topic that is very important to virginia the faa reauthorization, though, now pending before the body. I want to thank chairwoman camp well Ranking Member cruz because as a general matter this is a necessary bill with a lot of good provisions in it and particular the work on air Traffic Control recruitment and training and Pilot Training hours i feel very good about that work thats been done. But the jest of this bill to promote air safety and theres one provisio
Has changed, you know, any government is a wreck, absolutely the government is a wreck absolutely, i think that this is how to characterize what is happening today, well, but it is clear that the president ial elections are not on time, it is clear that the parliamentary elections are not on time, well, this means, well, considering the fact that we see that, uh, whatever the president ial team does, in principle, it will be their responsibility, no one from. Society there from the Civil Society cannot abandon them, because when journalists come to power there, they get evasion notices on their doors and summonses, politicians also get some criminal cases, something else, that is, it means that the more, the further away we are there will be no elections, the more there is a threat that we will slide into authoritarianism, c dictatorship, is there, is there such a threat . Any complete power concentrated in one hand is bad, but monopolies are immune responsibility, yes, but the office