the russian federation knows its horriffic war against ukraine has caused the majority of the international community see it as a pariah state. russia has created a global food prices by preventing grain exports. its bombing of the odessa port is in violation of its own agreement. foreign minister lavrov is attempting to engage with countries to try to stem the onslaught of outrage against russia, especially by misrepresenting russia's role in causing a surge in global food insecurity. i e not. mr. cornyn: thank you, madam president. madam president, as i was preparing to come to the floor, i was going to say we were going to have a vote tonight to proceed to fill a major gap in our national security. although it looks like mother nature and the weather may prevent a vote tonight, and it may be tom

[inaudible] >> i will dress that very quickly per the russian federation knows its horrific war against ukraine has because the majority of the international community to see it as a pariah state. you've heard her say this before. russiaru has created a global fd crisis by preventing grain exports. it's in bombing of the odesa port isth a violation of its own agreements, foreign minister, as you just stated is attempting to engage with countries to try to stem the onslaught of outrage against russia. especially byec misrepresenting russia's role in causing a surgeon mobile food insecurity procedure guys tomorrow, thank you. partnering with a thousand community centers

invasion . >> saturday, january 6 committee member jamie raskin and former federal judge michael london joined the discussion on the events surrounding the us capital attack. posted by the virginia bar association watch live at 10:40 5 am eastern on c-span. c-span now, our free mobile app or online at c-span.org. >> c-span brings you an unfiltered view of government . our newsletter word for word recaps the day for you from the halls of congress to daily press briefings to remarks from the president. scan the qr code at the right bottom to sign up for this email and stay up-to-date on everythinghappening in washington each day . subscribe today using the qr code or visit c-span.org/connect to subscribe anytime. >> the impact of tax incentives on affordable housing was the subject of a hearing before the senate finance committee. members talked about the housing supply shortage as well as the rise in rents and home prices. they also addressed concerns over private equity firms and real estate companies buying properties in low income communities whichcould push out long-term residents .

mister ylarose, you talked about your partnership with cisa and in 2019 when russian connected individuals attempted to pack your states system is that where that relationship started with cisa or did you have something going on before that and how did the federal government assist you after the attempted hack? >> i can tell you i made it a priority for my first couple days in office to get to know my counterparts and we worked closely with the cyber security teams in other states as well as my partners at cisa and down to the county level about laterally and down so we've been working with them ever since i came into office of that partnership paid off as you mentioned rawhen our state like many other states was the subject of what resulted in a ransom where attack. >> so with working with cisa, they are the head here of cyber security. seeing how the election system has been declared as critical infrastructure so their job is to protect it from cyber and physical threats. what services does cisa provide now that are most impactful? what are the things they can do better on? what's good a

and the russian federation and the people's republic of china also restricted the export of fertilizer, actions that have led in many countries to a tripling of fertilizer prices. threatening not just today's harvest but next year's as well. but since this crisis emerged, the united states, thanks in large part to the urgency and generals arety shown by members of congress on both sides of the aisle, is leading the world in a global response. our fight against the global food security crisis has three main fronts. rapidly distributing emergency humanitarian aid, making sustained investments in agricultural productivity, and concerted diplomacy of the kind ambassador thomas-greenfield has ashrewd -- alluded to so we marshal a global response to what is a global crisis. with regard to the humanitarian aid, usaid is on track to program more than $11 billion by the end of this fiscal year. $3.5 billion more than last year, which was itself a record amount. $5.7 billion of this funding will be directed to the world food program and i know you'll be hearing from executive director beasley to

federation. mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that the full text of the resolution be printed along with the remarks of the black law security bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: with that, mr. president, i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: don't get a lot of support from republicans and that makes it more difficult to do the things that we need to do the challenges facing us coming out of covid with inflation, trying to get things like child care done for american families. those are all things we need assistance on and against we don't always see it from the other side. >> host: as far as an agenda is there much an opportunity for your is between now and the end of the year in the summer break comes? >> guest: right now we're in the middle of appropriations season. we are doing that this weekend and next weekend and in september we will be back and almost at the election. we've

federation. actually, the capacity of the united states to produce energy at home and export it around the world has changed the geopolitics of the planet in a very positive way. but unfortunately, we see the biden administration has taken a different approach. he knows that a part of his political base would have an absolute meltdown if the president showed anything other than contempt for the domestic energy producers. and so he's come up with a different strategy that frankly makes no sense whatsoever. so, he's on a trip to the middle east, going to visit with mohammed bin salman, crown prince of the kingdom of saudi arabia, and ask him to increase production of oil and gas from not the united states, but from saudi arabia. forget american energy producers. the president would rather go hat in hand and talk to an autocrat, an oligarch in the middle east than he would to take his boot off the neck of american energy producers. so, apparently the president is not anti-fossil fuels. he's just ant

it wasn't just the russian federation but 15 new countries a new map of europe and i do recall also, you know having been about 18 years old at the time the great feeling of optimism, maybe not all russians felt it but certainly in the us we felt it and across much of europe. there was a sense of a real new beginning you're reading my mind. it was gonna ask you about that moment of optimism. i'm talking about the day christmas day 1991 president bush gave a televised address now, i was 16 years old. i was not paying attention to international politics or what really was going on in the news. i do remember reagan. i was a child of the 80s. i watched all those cold war movies rambo and red dawn which is still a very good movie by the way. it was the last time you watch red dawn that's childhood early adolescence. yeah. it's not forget firefox also, okay. president bush on tv basically says and i encourage everyone listening to seek this speech out. it's on youtube. we won they lost. freedom and liberty prevailed this is a he said this is a victory for our values. i wasn't just that the

what we have seen perpetrated on the federal level is now the same criminal organizations targeting state governments and state benefit programs. i would like to ask you to discuss from your perspective, what has been done and what can be done to combat this transnational criminal fraud now and in the future knowing it has targeted these federal programs and is looking at state programs where they may not have substantial guardrails. >> thank you for your question. obviously the secret service and our taskforces regularly work transnational crime. so this is nothing new to us. we are financial crimes investigating experts. so when we work these cases annually, we are kind of used to following the trail, the money trail. we will continue to follow that. we have great relationships internationally with numerous countries that allow us to partner with them and identify transnational organized groups and as i said earlier, we have several investigations, hundreds of investigations that involve transnational organized groups that i can't talk to you today, but i hope to at a later time bring m

so weer see perpetrated on the federal level is the same criminal organizations targeting state government and benefit programs. so from your perspective what has been done and what can be done to combat thissn transnational criminal fried and then looking at state programs were theynt may not have substantial guardrails? >> congresswoman, thank you for your question. obviously the secret service cyberfraud task force working through transnational crime and this is nothing new. we are financial crimes investigating experts. so when we were these cases annually, we are use to following themo money trail. we will follow that and we have some great relationshipsel internationally with numerous a countries and allow us to partnerth and identify transnational groups and we have several investigations. hundreds that involved transnational organized groups that i just cannot talk to today but i hope to at a later time to bring that information to the committee. we will follow the money recover as much as we can for the us taxpayer to bring that project justice as best we can. >> is there training

and the reports of up to 70 percent of the fraudulent money and up in the hands of russian and chinese and nigerian nationals. we seem perpetrated on the federal level is on the same criminal organizations targeting state government and state benefit programs. i would like to ask you to discuss from your perspective what has been done and what can be done to combat this criminal fraud now and in the future knowing that is targeting? >> thank you for your question. and then to work the transnational crime and with those crimes investigatingex experts. working the cases annually we are used to following the trail. we will follow that that allow us to partner with them and identify transnational groups we have hundreds that involved but as to bring information to the committee. we will continue to the us taxpayer bring those who have committed to justice. >> talked earlier in hoover alabama and countless federal state and local partners have received training there. technical training that includes four forensic examiners andth also issued special equipment to do those examinations and it

being murdered by the russian federation, russian federation forces for no reason, we the united states look in the toolkit as european allies and other democracies say what can we do? we can expel russia from the human rights council, we can generate a lopsided vote in the un general assembly, didn't increased of the maddock pressure but so too, this is outside usaid jurisdiction, we want to give ukrainians the means to defend themselves which when i started my career when i worked as an intern in richard haass's vicinity, that was the tool in the toolbox the bosnians most wanted, they wanted the means to defend themselves. that is always asking a lot of the international system. i think president biden in the ukraine context made clear we are not going to go to battle or end up in a war with russia, notwithstanding how dedicated we are to ensuring the survival and health of the ukrainian state. that is an example of that doctrine being put to use. when sudan, a bright spot because of the transition that occurred, a genocidal leader being put in jail, young people 70% of whom were wome

people being murdered by the russian federation for no reason the militia for no reason way the nine states look into the toolkit is a european allies and other democracies say what we do? we can't expel russia from the human rights council. we can generate a very lopsided vote in the un general assembly to condemn what they are doing. we can try to increase diplomatic pressure. so too and this is outside of the united states jurisdiction want to give ukrainian brave fighters of ukraine the memes to defend themselves. which, by the way when i started my career when i worked as an intern that was the tool in the toolbox bosnians most wanted as well per they wanted the memes to defend themselves. i shouldn't say just. that is always asking a lot of the international system. so, i think a president biden in the ukraine context has made clear we are not going to go to battle end up in a war with russia notwithstanding how dedicated we are with ensuring again the survival and health of the ukrainian state spray think that is an example of that doctrine kind being put to use. i think when

federation ad belarus pay the prices, and we'll look at the measures we've taken and happy to go into more on the discussion section, but let me try to pull out some themes that have guided our work. and in particular, i'll highlight three today. we've armed to impose immediate and severe costs on russia in response to the invasion. it sames to aims to isolate russia from the international economy and then we've had to degrade the power. let me make a comment on each of those. the first objective to impose immediate and severe costs i want to highlight in particular our actions targeting the financial sector. this includes not only blocking sanctions, designation of most of the major russian banks, in coordination with counterparts and european union and elsewhere, and as well as the european union's action to remove russian banks from the swift international payment messaging system, but also, actions that we've taken to freeze substantial portions of russia's hard currency reserves and make them unavailable to the kremlin as it seeks to support the value of the ruble and otherwise f

he recently tweeted, quote, can we give kentucky to the russian federation, end quote. in response to a catholic priest tweet critical of abortion, he tweeted an anti-catholic slur to both catholic prevents and then president trump, quote, focus on the pedophiles, end of quote. there are other examples, but i think it's pretty clear you get the bias of this particular special agent. you get the picture, in other words. after my letters were made public, he reportedly then sent his tweets to protected mode and deleted his linkedin profile. his social media activity likely violated several federal regulations and department guidelines, which guidelines are there designed to prevent political bias from infecting f.b.i. matters. such restrictions on political activity are heightened by senior f.b.i. officials like thibault because of the risk of improper influence on investigative matters. if he projects this type of political sentiment in public using his name and title, there's absolutely no telling what he's doing within the privacy of his office and in front of subordin

speaking minority, providing some form of federal solution like switzerland, belgium, others, in which minority groups have a degree of autonomy in their own regions. that is formulated in an agreement called minsk ii. some version of that has to be the possible outcome. if we don't want to just fight to the last ukrainian we have to offer vladimir putin an escape hatch. he has to have some way to escape from this without what amounts to suicide. if we tell him, if we send a current message, you are going to face war crimes trials, nothing you can do about it, sanctions will continue no matter what happens, we are telling him fight on to the last ukrainian. it might sound, sounds very heroic, but for the ukrainians it is a death warrant. we have to come out with a proposal, we have 2 support the proposals that are on the table, have been for a long time for settlement that offers putin some kind of escape, like it or not that is a necessity and it will have to be, based on neutralization of ukraine, some kind of diplomatic arrangement for a degree of autonomy for the russian oriented a

minority providing probably some form of federal solution like switzerland, belgium, others, in way minority groups have formulated an agreement called minsk two. some version that have has to be the possible outcome. and as freeman again stressed, if we don't want to fight for the last ukrainian, we have to offer vladimir putin an escape hatch. he has to have some way to escape from this without what amounts to suicide. we're going to face war trials. sanctions can happen no matter what happens. we're telling him fight on to the last ukrainian and it might sound old and, you know, winston churchill impersonation, sounds very heroic. we have to come out with a proposal. we have to support, i should say, the proposals that are on the table have been through a long time for a settlement that offers putin some kind of escape, like it or not, that's a necessity. and it will have to be based on neutralization of ukraine and some kind of diplomatic arrangement for a degree of autonomy for the russian oriented areas. and those things are on the table. the u.s. isn't supporting. the u.s. ac

the russian federation has a long history of war crimes. never been held accountable and that needs to change. moreover, there is no indication that russia will stop their attacks on ukraine anytime soon. having times a day have to be accused of committing war crimes before they stop. the time is now to hold russia accountable for the horrific acts on the people of ukraine. i look forward to continue working with the chairman on this bipartisan matter. with you, mr. ambassador and all people across the world, including everyone that wants freedom and democracy and human rights in all that's good in the world. the ukrainians are showing us their heart, but we need to back them up. this entire world. anybody who supports freedom and democracy over dictatorships. we need to step up and make tough decisions to do what is right here. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you, ranking member. i would like to introduce our witness today. thank you for being here. it is critically important that we hear from you and you can communicate on your role,

are we ready to accept hammer and sickle as the new symbols of the russian federation? are we ready to accept those horrendous images that we see on a daily basis in ukraine? are we ready and willing to surrender, not to russia, to hammer and sickle? ... there's been a mobilization. nato is really hot. this kind of vehicle that was kind of out of fashion and constantly knocked by president trump is now totally invigorated. invigorated. can you give us a little flavor of how this conflict has changed how you are thinking about the international order? >> i mean, i guess the way i would put it is it's worth remembering that even in the run-up to the actual invasion where the biden administration was very forthcoming in terms of talk about intelligence say this is going to happen, this is going to have this way. we see this is a plan, this is the rooms they will use to try to justify. two preferably the british were also roughly saying the same thing but you had the german chancellor, the french president, not completely disagree but disputing somewhat this really was goin

march 16 the russian federation invaded ukraine the subcommittee held a hearing dedicated to early signs of war crimes and abuses committed by ukraine by the russian military. since that time the u.s. has taken significant steps to support the people of ukraine and their fight for freedom while supporting the careful preservation of evidence

to liquidate assets seized from russian oligarchs, private jets, art collections and more. it should be a no-brainer to provide tools necessary to go after crooked russian oligarchs nevertheless house republicans bewilderingly opposed adding these tools in the house package. the senate should to better, both parties should work quickly and decisively to get this done in regular order. this should certainly be a bipartisan issue. as the war in ukraine enters third bloodied month, -- tive se. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to calendar 368, h.r. 7691. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to h.r. 7691, an act making emergency supplemental appropriations for assistance for the situation in ukraine, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the

i also call on my colleagues to swiftly pass additional legislation to arm the federal government with the tools needed to liquidate assets seized from russian oligarchs, yachts, mansion, private jets, art collections, and more. it should be a no-brainer to provide the tools necessary to go after crooked russian oligarchs but nevertheless, house republicans bewildering opposed adding these tools in the house package. the senate should do better. both parties should work quickly and decisively to get this done through regular order. this issue can certainly -- should certainly be a bipartisan issue. as the war in ukraine enters its third bloody month, we must leave no stone unturned in making putin and his cronies pay a price and helping the ukrainian people. their fight against russian aggression is a struggle it democracy and authority authoritarianism itself. there should be no question which side america stands on. i urge my republican colleagues not to block this legislation but to work with us to quickly get this passed through the chamber. everyone can have their own idea but if

intelligence or russian forces of some kind. and i think the people in my business tracked that story because it was a genuine federal investigation that was underway. in the end, it didn't really materialize, and iy. think that was reported as well. but i don't think it's our job to decide at the beginning of story whether it's going to pan out or whether investigation is going to lead to point x or point y. that's why t you track the stor. you know, you can make the case that, you know, the collapse of the collusion theory, maybe it should have gotten more attention, but i don't think there's any doubt that reporting that collusion investigation was an obvious thing to do and also ast responsibility. >> host: do you think that there are issues coming up with the whatever the dunham report comes out? >> guest: i think so. and i think -- and i think there are going to be some changes in the way these kinds of things are handled inside the federal machinery, if you will, as a result of that. and that's the way it should work with

we are at higher risk than ever out of -- of a russian cyberattack. the critical infrastructure act that sender pete -- senator peters and i cosponsored, we should put this new law into work to safeguard our nation as soon as possible. as you know, the author of the bipartisan law that -- at the state department to combat the evolving threat of disinformation, i do not believe the government should turn tools used to assist our allies on the american people. our focus should be on bad actors, gresh oden from china, iran, north korea, not our own citizens. mr. secretary, you've got a very full agenda at the department. you have been put in a very difficult position with regard to the border. thank you once again for being here to answer our questions, but it was only today that we received your answers to the committee's questions for the record from last year's budget hearing. i hope you will commit to answering our questions much more promptly as we discuss these issues today. thank you, mr. chairman. >> it's the practice of homeland security and gov

federation and russian people was always to restore the empire. so everything we heard in the articles, everything we heard and discussions, we always heard that the dissolution of the soviet union was the biggest mistake. we always heard until we see verbal attacks against polls, against everyone who is standing up. so i think the intent to go as far as possible and attack anyone who is democratic and especially who works in the same soviet prison and became democratic is and was always there. the capabilities of course is large free but thanks i think the capabilities are diminishing record late now. and the wonderful opportunities only when we together, democratic countries show weaknesses. when he thanks he can do it over and russian federation thanks they can do it, they will do it. so unfortunately, not very response since the first attacks were not very strong response taking into justice putin and all of those who shot the plane. not a very strong response to sierra. and what he had done in sierra led to this full-fledged war. that's why t

programs under section 9 of the small business act, 15 usc 638 without authorization to prevent the russian federation and people's republic of china from acquiring technology critical to national security developed through programs of the small business administration and participating federal agencies. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote on the ernst motion to instruct. ms. ernst: thank you, madam president. mr. president -- thank you mr. president. the small business innovation research and small business technology transfer programs provide critical innovation support to america's small businesses. while this program is celebrating 40 years in business, sbir continues to be exploited by foreign adversaries due to lack of controls within the programs to prevent the transfer of new american technology to our adversaries. china has become one of the largest beneficiaries of the sbir programs because of the lack of adequate oversight. china and other foreign adversaries like putin's russia know this and h

federation. mr. sullivan: madam president. there will be two minutes of debate prior to the vote on the sullivan motion to instruct. mr. sullivan: our nation produced the critical energy technology we use in america, but not anymore. unfortunately russia and particularly china have a stranglehold on most of these critical minerals and clean energy technology that our nation needs. to make matters worse, madam president, some of these critical minerals and materials we are importing, like solar panels, e.v. batteries, are processed and manufactured in china using forced labor in some of the -- the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mr. sullivan: madam president, may i have 30 seconds to complete my statement in. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sullivan: thank you, madam president. we can change this, madam president. we must change this had my motion to instruct is simple. any renewable energy project receiving federal funds cannot use materials, technologies, or criti

federation. and then putin is using the profits from the price of oil which has gone through the roof because of this uncertainty, he's using that money to fund his unprovoked war against ukraine as well as threatened nato and our other allies who don't want to prop up russia's war machine. here in the united states we don't rely on russia to keep the lights on. russia accounts for about 2% of our crude oil and petroleum imports allowing us to ban russian imports without risk of a major disruption. but our allies in europe are not so lucky. they don't just rely on russian oil. they also need russian gas. and we've learned that putin's not afraid to use oil and gas as a weapon to tear up, threaten, and intimidate his adversaries. that was underscored in january of 2009 when russia effectively turned off the gas to ukraine for almost three weeks. this had an impact on at least ten countries in europe whose natural gas traveled through ukraine. and today we're seeing that movie replayed again. russi

i will also work to include a provision that arms the federal government with the tools russian oligarchs such as jocks, mansions, private jets and the like. specifically, the senate should expand existing forfeiture laws that will turn up the heat on these corrupt individuals who made their ill-gotten gains from the vicious evil dictatorial vladimir putin. when he should go after these cricket oligarchs they've gotten rich off putin's regime. their ill-gotten's gains should have no safe refuge within the i united states. it would be great if it looked these assets could be used to support the ukrainian people. i think that is the right way to go and i will work to see the senate acts in the space. two months into the war it's clear that support for the united states and our allies has been essential in helping ukraine resist russia's invasion. but the bloodshed is very likely far from over. a cost borne by the ukrainian people has been immense. according to the un, at least 3000 civilians have been killed since the start of the war of the true numbers unfortunately, sadly, far higher tha

federation we would have already ended this war i don't think we can afford to make the same mistakes in taiwan. the stakes are high they make 90% of semiconductor chips. if they controlled they take taiwan they could weaponize the semi connector supply chain. and just decimate the united states economy. the ccp control taiwan we give china physical in the first chain they would cut the u.s. off from our allies and produce at a strategic disadvantage into our type of islands in that security group. my question very quickly the charm and i sign off on weapon sales. we sent a joint letter to you on december the third of last year. about ten weapons systems they're all very important but admit the ambassador from taiwan she said i have not received any of these. i think deterrence is important here. and we wrote to a request notification of the pending shipment of sales to taiwan. why is this being held up? many of these were sign off by the chairman and myself two years ago per. >> first on ukraine come again with great appreciation for everything that you have done, that the chairman h

i will ask the senate to arm the federal government with the tools necessary to put pressure on russian's oligarchs. we will expand existing forfeiture laws to achieve that end. we need to go after the crooked oligarchs who have gotten rich with putin's regime. the federal government should make sure that their moment of reckoning comes. two months into the war, putin's hopes for a quick takeover of ukraine thanks to the ukrainian people and to the support that the united states has provided with critical weapons. this is a fight against democracy. this is a fight of democracy against authoritarianism. all money spent on ukraine is well spent. we can't stop now, we must make sure the ukrainian people have the help they need for as long as they need it. the senate must work in a bipartisan way to pass another round of time tense sieve covid -- time sensitive covid funding. republican obstruction will not serve the american people. the administration has made clear is needs more covid money right now in order to secure the next round of vaccine doses, testing, and a new lifesaving therapeut

research on russian screenwriters to be able to release this project out so that people could study russian directors and screenwriers. i'm -- screenwriters. i'm fine if anybody wants to do this, but if we do this, it should be a private project, not have a federal government project when we're dealing with $30 trillion in debt. what else did we do with the money? how about lobster pot removal. yep, we spent half a bhldz in a special -- billion dollars in a special earmark to do this. it was listed in the bill as derelict lopster pots. i understand it is lobster pots that someone abandoned. if you told me there was a lobster trap and you could keep the track and lobster if you get it, we would go get it. instead, we are paying a half million dollars in federal dollars to pick up derelict lobster pots. when we have a derelict oil and gas well in oklahoma, oil and gas companies all pool money together and put a little bit in to be able to go clean that sight up -- that site up and year by year we're cleaning up abandoned well sites because our companies actually kick the money in to go clean

federation. daily ukrainian soldiers and civilians are being bludgeoned. we need to get them the resources they need to hold the line. and we need to continue to act with dispatch. just before the state work period, the senate passed legislation that would help make that more likely. it was called the bipartisan ukraine lend-lease act which i introduced with senator cardin that has broad bipartisan support in the senate and it passed unanimousously -- unanimously here early last month. it's rooted in the same principle as the original lend listen lease act which occurred during world war ii whereby the united states became what franklin delano roosevelt called the arsenal of democracy. and we provided at the time up to $30 billion worth of materials, airplanes, ships, ammunition, all manner of weaponry which allowed great britain to hang on against nazi aggression. now, if you translate the amount of assistance that the united states gave our allies in world war ii under the lend listen lease --

these rules and regulations by the way apply to russian oil. none of them apply to iranian oil and none of them apply to venezuela yet that to present biden is begging to produce more oil. dictators to energy and turn to america whereby the way is greater than anywhere in the world could you get energy from russia they have are much higher carbon footprint and i'd love to see the carbon footprint and maybe we can have a hearing on that. the carbon footprint of joe biden's anti-american policy. oorepublicans have filed more tn 60 billsls by the way, 60 billso reverse this barrage and assault on american energy by president biden. ranking member kathy mcmorris rodgers head had a bill and thea are built to do all kinds of things to allow us to produce ourer resources and by the wayro cleaner than anybody else in the world. that's where this should be going. i've got some questions for witnesses and they'll start with mr. lawler. my question is this whole mountain of red tape by president obama make it harder for you to produce energy in america ye

congresswoman maloney is corporate transparency act now requires treasury to establish a federal beneficial ownership database administered by fincen. madam secretary, can you give us information on the timeframe where we expect this database to be set up? >> so let me say on the fincen fincen, we are working very hard to establish the database as rapidly as possible and that come out with one of the two proposed rules that we need. it's a very complex undertaking. we want to get it right. i want to respond on issue about private equity firms and hedge funds, that we share the concerns of members of congress who have raised this issue and we are actively considering a rule that would address potential gaps in the aml cft coverage for investment advisors. and do believe that this is something that needs to be addressed. >> thank you.oo may just have to respond for the record, , but we now have a climate counselor in the administration to coordinate a broad range of work regarding climate related i next economic and tax policy. i hope you could provide us with an update on treasury's updates,

federation and for other purposes. calendar number 313, h.r. 17 -- h.r. 7108, an act to suspend normal trade relations with russia and for other purposes. the presiding officer: under the previous order, amendment number 5021 to h.r. 6968 and amendment number 5020 to h.r. 7108 are agreed to and the bills, as amended, are considered and read a third time. the question occurs on the passage of h.r. 7108, as amended. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: on is this vote, the yeas are 100. the nays are zero. the bill, as amended, is passed. the question occurs on passage of h.r. 6968, as amended. a senator: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: does anyone wish to change their vote? then the yeas are 100, the nays are zero. the bill, as amended, is passed. under the previous order, the senate wi

obviously there are areas where there has been an impact including on the price of gas use of the federal reserve convey today the impact of the russian invasion on inflation but we know that to be the case. but what we are trying to do is mitigate those impacts. obviously not just the announcement of the strategic release from petroleum reserve but the announcement by the iea today is the largest release they have ever done in history. all of these are part of our collective effort to mitigate the impacts on the american people over the course of time for even the length of time by the release from the strategic petroleum reserve meant to be a stopgap measure kind of a bridge measure get the oil companies to produce more is intended to have a mitigation impact over the course of time. so, what we are doing is anticipating and trying to take steps to reduce the impact on the american people over time. >> follow up on that question do you have a detail or know how much oil has been release of the weathered 80 million barrels today? >> i'm happy to get that boy i'm sure our team may have th

thank you. >> i think the representative of the russian federation. the presidency will not refuse to host meetings in the future, and i hope that that closes that point and we can proceed with the adoption of the agenda. the provisional agenda for this meeting is dated from the permanent representative of ukraine to the united nations addressed to the president of the security council, s/2014/136. the agenda is adopted. i should like to start by taking the opportunity to pay tribute on behalf of the council to her excellency, the permanent representative of the united arab emirates for your service as the president of the council for the month of march. i'm sure i speak for all of us in expressing our deep appreciation to the ambassador and her team for the skillful conduct of the council's business last month. thank you very much indeed. in accordance with rule 37 of the council's provisional rules and procedure, i invite the representative of ukraine to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. on behalf of the council, i welcome the participa

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