we don't schedule the floor. the reason the bill is on the floor today is because the majority is bringing it to the floor. i mean, i would love to bring -- i'd love to be able to have the power as a minority to bring legislation to the floor because if we could, i tell you what, it wouldn't be this bill. it would be a bill dealing with energy. a bill trying to bring down the price of gasoline which is at $5 a gallon in some states. it would be a bill trying to deal with the border situation. i wish we could schedule the floor. now, let's hope the american people are going to make a change this fall and put us in position where we can schedule the floor. if we do, if we get that power, we will focus on those kind of issues. the majority -- the majority leader of the house of representatives just said the reason the bill is on the floor today is because of the minority. that cannot happen. i wish it could but it can't. those are the kind of arguments we're getting. we should be focused on the issues the american p

jim: here's brown down the middle of floor with his drive. beautiful follow-up just then by skipper-brown and look at meeks going to work and he goes to the line also. ian: zane meeks with a free throw. there is justice hill. out near mid court. saint peter's waiting in the second round after the overtime victory against the two seed in the east, kentucky. meeks, sophomore. off the mark. jim: got to go after them. ian: 18 seconds left. jim: wasting a lot of time. ian: and a time-out called with 15.7 on the clock. tevin brown got helped in with -- hemmed in with two defenders. justice hill limps to the side then squats down. looking for some relief. they elected to trap, time came off the clock and matt mcmahon decided to take a time-out, regroup. it allows san francisco to discuss it as well. the dons are out of time-outs. murray state has one remaining. 15.7 on the clock. murray state just trying to get to the finish line. injuries, players that have fouled out. and matt mcmahon just looking for live bodies to get this done. jim: yeah, san f

you see two floors were simply demolished and on the third floor.ollapsed. now employees. the ministry of emergency situations is trying to get a passage there to the people who are still there inside this densely populated area. it used to be considered practical and almost all apartments are occupied in these houses. it was filled with people. now they are taking out. one by one from here people. literally 3 minutes ago , a wounded grandmother was dragged out of here, she was sent to one of hospitals in the city of donetsk the guys are working clearing and talking now about the number of what will be impossible, i understand, thank you very much. thank you very much our war correspondent for direct communication. from donetsk, andrei probably noticed. i just said that in fact there are no safe places in this city now. ukrainians are leading to the end ukrainians. no, they don't give up. we, in turn, must also liberate this territory from neo-nazis. very sorry for the people very sorry for the people collapsed floors, from the ninth floor to the th

e, taking civilians hostage on the lower floors and occupying the upper floors in terms of firing froma video of how in mariupol, from an anti-tank missile system, an azov man was trying to hit the booms unsuccessfully, fortunately for us. you can tell too. eh, as you saw with my own eyes, that most of the damage is in residential buildings. these are the upper floors where the firing points were located, whether it was or not. partly so, because look, firing points were located on the upper floors to destroy equipment that drove into the city, but, uh, in houses that were turned into fortified areas. they tried to occupy the lower ranks there. and in order to conduct a shooting battle. that is, to make it as difficult as possible to pronounce them there. and yes, they chased people and took them hostage. well, someone was forced to sit in the basement. someone just they were driven out of the apartments, they were equipped somewhere; these were such mobile points, that is, they ran into the apartment there, shot back and left. and where are you , these were full-fledged strongholds. h

i am i'll tell you more this floor is very safe.irst of all, it does not emit anything into the environment. and secondly, imagine, it does not burn , no, you don’t believe it. let's wait for it now, let's drive it with gasoline, now you're pouring it. we will also make one of the walls in the living room hardy and at the same time effective on glue, we plant marble-like ceramic slabs, the size of each is 1x3 m. decorate with them. you can even make facades of buildings in the kaluga region. new door outside. mirror from the inside black works on the contrast polypropylene coating of the canvases film, box and hinges hidden handle, italian. here it is our white chocolate, something that was already a mystery in the interior was embodied in these large ceramic plates due to the fact that they are large there are no seams that flicker and this always creates in space, such lightness and volume. and there is also milk chocolate. this is our floor, which you know there, just in a brutal way, you didn’t experience it at all, we decided t

is the lower two floors. the d.r. filer dug a hole 16 feet from the rear yard, the original rear yard height down, and on the right of the top right picture, you can see there's a four-foot wide staircase that goes down to a pit where he put the bedrooms on the lower floor of this a.d.u., which he then put an 18-foot-high fence, which i believe is beyond what is allowed, so it's basically impossible to get light into that pit. in this lower left-hand, you can see that it's physically impossible to actually see into the rear yard from our second floor deck, and it's actually in reverse. the privacy is really from the other house, the issues are from the other house. slide, please. so in summary, the d.r. filer has proposed outlandish ideas for problems that do not exist. there are no extraordinary impacts from the project that exists. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, mr. pearlman, and as stated to the d.r. requester, you will have one minute of rebuttal. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the com

i now give the floor to the representative of albania. you have the floor. amb. hoxha: thank you, madam president. i would like to think miss dicarlo and we are happy we could listen to mr. grossi. i'm david like to reassure him of our support -- and i would like to reassure him of our support on the matter. dear colleagues, 10 days into the so-called special military operation, which is in reality the operation of how to invade your neighbor, we are in the midst of a large-scale human tragedy running towards a global catastrophe for ukraine first but for russia as well. and as we see every day, with serious implications for wider europe. thousands have been killed with at least 2000 civilians. according to u.n. reports, some 12 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. one million have already fled the country, the fastest and largest mass exit of people in decades. all developments of this geopolitical crisis are created by russia's unprovoked and unjustified aggression against ukraine. unmistakably, it is headed towards further escalation.

i now give the floor to ms. rosemary. >> matter president, the secretary-general is gravely concerned by the escalated fighting throughout ukraine. ukrainian cities are today under siege. over one million ukrainians have already crossed ukraine's borders and have been welcomed by european neighbors. we applaud the solidarity and support. everyone seeking refuge should be afforded protection without any form of discrimination. millions of ukrainians who remain in the country are being subjected to heavy, often indiscriminate bombardment and shelling. there are thousands of casualties and the number is growing. the u.n. significantly increasing its humanitarian assistance in ukraine to respond to the escalating crisis. matter president, the secretary-general has followed with great alarm reports of heavy fighting at the nuclear power plant in ukraine. we understand the fire affected the training facility and not the power facility or cooling structure. it is not only unacceptable, but highly irresponsible. ukraine

i give him the floor. >> thank you, mr. president. propaganda, disinformation, amateurism is unfazed -- on based imagination. false flag operations that's , what we have heard today. some statements have literally repeated their statements on the 11th of march. if you haven't heard anything new in our statement today it's , because you weren't listening. we provided not fiction, not something found in the dark web, but we provided new material and documents which we disseminated. , these documents have signatures. these documents were prepared on the basis of observation between -- cooperation between ukraine and the u.s. in the biological field. if you can verify what we provide, i ask you -- i think anyone who needs to ought to be able to find this. if you want to do so, then do, but don't make them -- unfounded accusations of russian propaganda but replied to the questions we ask. you are refusing to do so, simply because you have nothing to say, while you are trying to accuse us of intentions to deploy biological and chemical weap

i now give the floor. >> thank you mr. president distinguish members of the secured counsel, i am aware that the russian federation has submitted documents regarding allegations of biological weapons programs in ukraine. as i informed the security council last friday, the united nations is not aware of any such biological weapons program. i would also like to note that the united nations currently has neither the mandate or technological capacity to investigate this information. as i previously informed the council, the relevant instrument of international law is the 1972 biological weapons convention. which is actively prohibiting the development, production, acquisition, transfer, and use of biological and toxin weapons. the russian federation and ukraine are both state parties to the biological weapons convention. mr. president, the biological weapons convention contained several messages which concern state parties could have recourse in order to address these situations in which they have concerns or suspicions of the

and we have serious legislation on the floor today and the process that it is making and working its way. and have a bipartisan omnibus funding bill that includes 13.6 billion in funding for ukraine, humanitarian, economic and military. defense spending. a separate funding package to battle the coronavirus that we are taking out of the omnibus and, of course, that i mentioned, the omnibus bill and banning russian oil and energy products into the u.s. and taking other steps to isolate russia and the world including a review of their position in the world trade organization. . >> in in the bipartisan bill, there was money allocated and couldn't be spent until we unlocked it. and this is especially and establishes new cyber in addition, other bills, establishing new cyber protections against russia, but those are two different bills. the women violence act. and we are pleased -- we had to make compromisees. on the covid relief bill, unfortunately, we had to have 60 votes in the senate and couldn't get 60 votes without taking money out of the state allocations that were in the rescue pac

we just went from person on the floor to person on the floor to person on the floor., "help's going to come soon, just wait, "help's going to come soon." it felt like a long time before somebody finally came over to me and asked me my name. and all i could say was "saffie", ijust said saffie. cos i wanted them to find her. lisa was taken to hospital with life threatening injuries. andrew finally tracked her down at 06:30 the next morning. so, i went to icu, i took a look at lisa and ijust walked behind the bed and just broke down. they went through the possibilities of amputation of her hand, her leg, being paralysed from the neck down, and basically 20% chance of survival. lisa was put into a coma. andrew still didn't know where saffie was. this is becoming a nightmare, and it's unfolding to be real. one of the nurses that was with us said, "this is a detective." i said, "i need to know where my daughter is." i said it's 8am. i think he returned at 1230. and he says, "i've asked for a room." he says, "can you make your way to the room?" and... ..that walk to that roo

i now give the floor. >> thank you, madam president. i think the councilmembers for the opportunity to brief you this morning. i am aware of reports that certain public health facilities are in areas impacted by conflict, pushing -- putting the safety of those facilities at risk. i appeal to all parties in this conflict to ensure the safety of all such facilities in ukraine. i am aware of media reports regarding allegations of biological weapons programs. the united nations is not aware of any biological weapons programs. that is largely thanks to the biological weapons convention, which prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxic weapons. the russian federation and ukraine are both state parties to the convention. in addition, the russian federation is a depository government under the convention. all state parties to the convention have undertaken never in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain biological weapons. biological weapons

so in any event we'll have our bill on the floor today as well. well, depending on how long this all takes. but that is the plan. rules is about to meet. i don't know if they're about to go, in they gave notice they were going in in an hour a while ago. we plan to move as quickly as possible. i had -- i had over 45 minute conversation with president zelensky earlier today. it is really an honor to just be on the call with somebody so courageous, so determined, and so stray teenlic in his thinking about how to protect his country. the assault that putin has made on ukraine is an assault on democracy. so the ukrainians are not only defending their country, they're defending democracy. we talked about a range of issues including what the crimes against humanity that putin is committing, about today the news was they bombed a maternity hospital killing baby, children, moms. this is the beast that putin is. what we would like to do is for the people of russia to understand that and of course he's blanking out a lot of that. so in any event that takes u

i yield the floor. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. markey: madam president, i want to join with the senator from the sunshine state, letting him know that the senator from the bay state, the senator from the ocean state, we share a common agenda. we bridge ideological divisions, liberal, democrats from the northeast, conservative, republicans from florida coming together to show that this institution can work. and why is that? well, because we know that daylight savings time helps to turn the corner of people's mouths upwards into a smile. it's sunshine and smiles. we've only had daylight savings time so far for two days, but all across the country people are out in the evening with extra daylight. little league can start, people taking their walks feel more safe, people can walk down to the town square knowing that the daylight is out there. and so this is something that should be bipartisan. it should bring us all together and -- and i thank the senator from florida for his

i want to yield the floor to senator toomey. .. o thank the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee for the work that he's done on this for years. i just want to make pa couple on this for o years.a couple i just want to make a couple of points here. one is, it is a very hard to point to make but i think we ought to be candid. that is there is a very real danger that the russian military will eventually prevail. let's be honest they are much larger they have far more resources. the ukrainians are putting up an absolutely historic and heroic fight. but it is not clear they can hold on indefinitely. so what should we be doing in light of that fact and the circumstances we have. i a s completely agree we have n obligation in my mind to provide the resources that we can. we are doing that this legislation would go further for there's one other thing we can do i think is extremely important as well. that is established as a goal that as soon as possible vladimir putin come to regret this decision. it's extremely importa

the first floor symbolizes roots and earth.ond floor fox and fields, well, the third sky and mountains, although the owners have not yet reached them. sophia and denis could have met in early childhood, for example, when they went to the same palace of pioneers or in a lyceum, where they both studied, he is a few classes older, but met only on a hike, which were arranged by mutual acquaintances, and then separated for 8 years, occasionally maintaining communication, fate brought them together again, when both had already graduated from universities, he became an engineer. she is a psychologist, but the main pride of the royals is an unusual interior. it took shape thanks to their love for hiking and traveling, sofya came up with the concept of eco-art, and a few years ago in the czech republic, koroleva became friends with the sculptor, restorer and architect stefan shamilyan. at as a result, instead of several interior items, the queen received harmonious and thoughtful spaces, and only the guest did not manage to get to the a

my good friend says why are we here on the floor today? senator, i would say the reason we're on here -- on the floor today is it's not enough. now, you said i came down here to criticize the president. i did not criticize the president in anything i said. i applaud the action he's taken. i want him to take more. we have a convoy that's 40 miles long that's headed for kiev. that convoy started out after all of the sanctions that the president put in place, had taken effect. the banks, as you know, shut down, at least temporarily in russia. they've closed their stock market. they've done a number of things, but it's not enough. we need to toughen up. and as you know, i have talked and talked and talked with the administration to try to get them to embrace secondary sanctions because it's the secondary sanctions that are truly going to shut the thing down lock, stock, and barrel and putin is going to have to answer to his people if we do get shut down. this is not partisan. i'm not here to try to drive a wedge in the party. and as you know,

you have the floor. ~' ., . asked for the floor. you have the floor. ~ ., ., , . ., floor. ukrainian people. thank you. i think the representative of the united states for her statement. i now give the floor to the representative of ukraine. thank ou, mr representative of ukraine. thank you, mr president, _ representative of ukraine. thanki you, mr president, distinguished members of the security council, madame undersecretary general. i should also acknowledge the presence of a separate category here, the representative of the aggressor state who sits in the seat of the soviet union in the security council. the state that was recognised and that is a status of aggressor state. there is already a long record of russian lies established here in the council. and only their recollection of the items of lies over the past few weeks will take perhaps an hour or so but let me mentionjust a couple, the lowest of the lowest. and i will not hesitate to mention them after the representative in the soviet seat just mentioned them. let me quote his kingpin. the russian foreign minister

with that, madam president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: madam president, i'm joined on the floor today by my friend and colleague senator graham. we have the honor of coleading the u.s. congressional delegation to the munich security conference which for a great number of reasons, all well deserved, is still called codel mccain. it is the only codel that is named for a senator who is no longer with us and it is in respect for senator mccain's long tradition of support for that conference, nato, and the atlantic alliance more generally. this year obviously things are very different. the russians are on the border of ukraine and two things came out of this conference that i thought were important. one was an early flicker of hope within the delegation that the ukranians might actually pull this off. that was supported by none of our briefings. the entire national security establishment has presumed that it was only a matter of time until ukraine fell. but senator graham an

i give the floor to mr. rau. >> mr. president, and madam undersecretary general and distinguished ambassador and ladies and gentlemen, let me start by stressing how much i value the continued dialogue between the organization for security and cooperation in europe and the united nations. they are in line with chapter 8 of the u.n. chapter to continuities cooperation and coordination with the united nations. however organizations share the same goal of seeking peace, security and promoting respect for human rights as the union rules based order. such close cooperation is even more needed today when the basic of the u.n. charter and international law are being flag grantly violated in the very heart of europe. i address you with a sense of urgency to make every possible effort to stop the russian federation against ukraine. it is a platform to diffuse sanctions and dialogue and risk of military escalation and prevent conflict. since the very beginning, my goal has been to seek compromise and facilitate dialogue between pa

sound floor. case involves a small amount of demolition went beyond the demolition crew and the permit addresses that access demolition to the satisfactionof planning, the zoning administrator, planning commission, dbi and everyone else except appellant . appellant claims the planning staff got wrong, they all got wrong and theyshould have ordered the top floor removed to be consistent with the code in past practice. that argument is backwards . fixing the problem is what is consistent withthe code and past practice . lopping off the top floorof a three-year-old home would be unprecedented, unfair and unjust .the argument to the maid tonight about two inches here or three inches there, those are all part of a campaign by the appellants to claim inaccuracy when there are none. those plans have been gone over with a fine tooth comb by planning,by dbi . they been verified by a professional survey . i'm more than happy to address any questions you might have about that. i don't think it merits the fur

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and now live to the floor of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. mighty god, in times of turbulence throughout our history you have answered us. answer us again.

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only it is necessary to completely floor went down a direct hit.s in an apartment on a storey building. there are children among the victims passes. now evacuation. the residents of the search may still have been affected because it was early in the morning. everyone was at home getting ready to go to work to go from under the rubble of the house the rescuer managed to extract a one-year-old child the girl with injuries was taken to hospital in the department of neurosurgery. doctors fighting for her life have already managed to determine the go of the ammunition that was struck. this is a hurricane. markings have been preserved on the nose of the rocket, we find fragments of elements. e-e warhead large-caliber presumably there may even be a hurricane shelling of donetsk unfortunately, they continue and at the moment they are hitting the village of aleksandrovka and the petrovsky district of donetsk andrey rudenko oleg bondarenko news, donbass two more people died in gorlovka, after shelling by the ukrainian security forces, this was reported by th

i come to the floor to speak about unleashing american energy. earlier this month, we saw the highest price ever for a gallon of gasoline in the united states. inflation is over a high of 40 years. energy costs are driving the cost of everything else and there appears to be no end in sight. joe biden cannot hide from the fact that he is the president of high prices. meanwhile in europe, vladimir putin continues his own slot. the russian killing machine continues its assault on innocent people. thousands of civilians have been killed. this includes hundreds of children. vladimir putin's war crimes are all paid for with russian energy. energy accounts for nearly half of putin's budget. energy is the only successful industry in the russian economy. if you want to defend vladimir putin, you have to drain the tank. you have to defend him on energy. so, what do we see from the president of the united states? joe biden spent all of last year acting like vladimir putin was his secretary of the energy. he played right along. if putin wanted, biden did it.

i now give the floor to his excellency. >> mr. president, madame undersecretary general, distinguished ambassadors, ladies and gentlemen, let me start by stressing how much i value the continued dialogue between the organization for security and cooperation in europe and the united nations. we always see in line with chapter 8 of the u.n. charter stands ready to continue cooperation and coordination with the united nations. our organizations serve the same goal of strengthening international peace, security, and promoting respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms, and the universal rules-based order. such a close cooperation is even more needed today, when the basic princips of the u.n. charter and international law are being flagrantly violated in the very heart of europe. i address you today with a sense of urgency and moral imperative to make every possible effort to stop the military aggression of the russian federation against ukraine. the ouc was designed as a platform to defuse tensions reviewing the risk of military ,

on our floor instead of the baseboard.nother layer of drywall. it is installed on top of the profile and beyond. puttied. that's due to this deepening. we have a shadow effect, you can install a light there and stick it on the tape from there. well, about interesting too. whether a lot of dirt will accumulate, the height of the gaps allows you to calmly get your hand with a rag, you don’t have to worry. this is a very good story for a style called minimalism. the black potbelly stove against the background of a white wall also effectively stretched the chimney up two floors, where we will put the collar clamps on above the roof, where there is a large wind load, perhaps, but we will supply this part with a special system, which is called smooth. it fits without clamps. i really like it. this black metal shadow soul is also black. uh-huh this is all combined with the frame of the black parts of the chimney, already with high-quality insulation between the other two circuits, the draft will be good. this is a necessary form

thank you and i yield the floor. >> the clerk will call the role. for anybody watching in case it isn't clear what happened, this just past. >> the senate is in a quorum call. >> let me ask unanimous consent. and like me make it clear to anyone watching that they just saw this measure pass. we have just passed the bill to end the return from daylight savings time to make daylight savings time permanent. ♪♪ buckeye broadband supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy in his state of the state address louisiana governor edwards announced he's not renewing the public health emergey

i now give the floor to miss rosemary. thank you for the invitation to join his excellently -- his excellency to brief the council on oesc, -- and when the concert in ukraine has worsened -- to maintain and strengthen european and international peace and security. born out of the cold war, the osce -- from vancouver to vladivostok over one arching goal, to resolve differences peacefully. in line with chapter eight of the united nations charter, the osce works in complement to the u.n., including to resolve conflicts in the region. in 1993, the u.n. and the osce established a cooperation framework. since then, our partnership has grown in scope and substance to address acute crises and find solutions to security challenges. our shared commitment to peace building and the security agenda was reaffirmed through the joint declaration between the secretary-general and the chairperson in office, in 2019. the coordination guiding our efforts translates into action in various ways. we work together in central asia to implement the

president, i yield the floor. senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. peters: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak for two minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. peters: mr. president, i rise in support of shalanda d. young's nomination to be director of the office of management and budget. ms. young has done an exemplary job serving as o.m.b.'s acting director for the past year. she is a dedicated public servant and a proven leader. she has played a key role in the administration's efforts to help the nation recover from the pandemic. she has worked closely with congress to pass the historic bipartisan infrastructure package, and she is truly committed to making the federal government work better for the american people. i have absolutely no doubt that ms. young is the right choice to lead the o.m.b. going forward. i urge my colleagues to join me in voting to confirm shalanda young to be the director of o.m. b. the presiding officer: under the previ

here you see that again on the second floor plan. this is the residential floor plan. i'm going to speak morphicly mok more specifically. before i do that i just want to talk about the over all building design. our goal is to harmonize with the scale and materials and so in looking at the context here you see the two street front ages, the block context rather than one single architectural style we see areas and styles on the block itself as well as on chestnut street so in order to address the neighborhood context we focus on material and we're inspired by the texture and shadow play and depths and relief you see on some of the a joining building and we think it's an important character to bring into the building design so we've proposed vertical textual accent material you see on both chestnut and lombard and the other thing that is important to the character is the storefront and the sidewalk experience. so, in looking at our building design, we really focus on the details of the storefront creating human scaled components like signs, anings, bulk heads and texture

i yield the floor mr. president, vladimir putin has continued to wage horrific war against ukraine and the ukrainian people. this invasion waged upon the profits of russia's oil and gas empire has caused destruction and devastation beyond measure. we must denounce putin's war of choice, but we must call out profiteering and the ricochet effects of that conflict that affects americans and others across the world. this connection to conflict is only possible as a result of the fallacy of american energy independence from oil and gas extraction, a lie that has been sold by the american petroleum institute -- or the american prevarication institute, as they should be called. for years, the oil and gas industry has sold americans more snake oil than actual oil, promising security and safety in exchange for unlimited drilling, unlimited exports, unlimited profits for big oil and big gas in the united states. and after yet another year of price spikes caused by putin and profiteering, it is time to say, enough is

. >> i now give the floor to -- >> thank you, mr. president. distinguished members of the security council. i am aware that the russian federation has submitted documents regarding allegations with bioweapons programs in ukraine. as we form the secret counsel illustrated united nations is not aware of any such biological weapons program. i would also like to note that the united nations currently has neither the mandate nor the technical operational capacity to investigate this information. as i prettily inform the council, the relevant instrument of international law is a 1972 biological weapons convention which effectively prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, and use of biological and toxic weapons. the russian federation and ukraine are both signatory parties. mr. president, the biological weapons convention contains several measures to reach concern state parties can have recourse and were to address situations in which they have concerns or suspicions about the activities of their peers. pursuant to article v of th

the floor attendants obeyed him, sometimes good angry and evil on the orders of the administrator. could put you in a room where there is no cold water. and now hook you up with a neighbor, who snores like hell, but at the same time it rolls on the moscow floor attendant, a very favorable impression, such a polite and modest man, it was this floor attendant who became the main witness to his alibi. the duty officer said on the evening of january 17, they stood and asked her for an iron. excuse god at all. what a good thank you, he retired to his room and did not go anywhere at night. in this, the woman was absolutely sure past her and the mouse would not have slipped through 18 in the morning, sleepy trushin, left the room and returned the iron. thank you big. this means that he could not be in izhevsk at that time. but it was on the night of 17/18 that his wife was killed. the entire carefully constructed version collapsed with us at that time remained for a year, undiscovered throughout the republic. one two three crimes and murders are not solved. it was, as they say, an emergen

i'm give the floor now to the representative of norway. all right, once again, let's bring and kristen salumi. she's joining us from the united nations in kristen . so we just heard from china. obviously, i'm an ally of north korea that was followed by the representative from russia. just talk us through what they had to say, well, what they are saying, and if you don't follow the un very closely, it might be easy to miss their poking at the united states and some of the council members, both china and russia, i had raised concerns about leakage from the panel of experts committee as to their reports on what was happening in north korea. this was something that was discussed during the mandate renewal process. and in fact, as a sign of how polarized the council is, as i was talking about before, they couldn't reach an agreement on changing the language and the mandate. so they opted for a more standard roll over of what they had in the past. and russia was referring to china's request to address those leaks. but what's interesting as the u

i gild the floor.this consent that senator ernst feinstein be permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each prior to the vote on the corley nomination. >> senator from iowa. >> on the floor this morning to talk about a very important topic and one that we can finally celebrate which is the passage, the signing of the violence against women act. nine years. it is been nine years since the violence against women act was authorized. finally, the senate reauthorized and modernized this very important bill. last week, the violence against women act reauthorization act of 2022 passed the house and the senate and yesterday at long last it was signed into law. i have been a proud champion of this bill over the last three years. and while no bill is perfect, i am extremely grateful that a bipartisan work to get it over the finish line. mr. president, this bill is personal. many of you know my story. i am the one out of three women that have experienced some form of physical violence by an infinite partner. >> fr

the floor is yours. good morning. >> the first in person testimony in two years. >> thank you chair peskin. thank you supervisors. i'm very honored to be giving the first testimony back in person. i'm very honored to be nominated for this role. this commission is especially appealing to me, i've been working in housing in san francisco for the majority of my career. this office will ultimately have say over the vast majority of affordable housing to be built in this town over the next 10 or 20 years. i've been working in various community groups and this feels like a much more efficient way to contribute to one of the central issues of our city in this time. thank you very much. >> chair peskin: thank you mr. ludlum. you seem to be clear when we met about the role that a commissioner plays both to support and to interact with question the executive director, not otherwise mettle in the day-to-day affairs of the commission but to give it broad high level oversight and accountability. i appreciated that ve

now i give the floor to the distinguished representative of switzerland. >> >> mr. secretary-general, dear colleagues. as it was clearly stated, the united nations were not created to take us to heaven but to save us from hell. and yet, what the population in ukraine is experiencing in recent days looks very much like what we have pledged to avoid. this is why this assembly is meeting today in the face of war that has already cost many lives. each life lost is one too many. our thoughts are with the victims and with their families. we express our solidarity with the ukrainian people and their democratically elected authorities. we are deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. this assembly is meeting today at the request of the security council due to the lack of consensus among its permanent members. switzerland supported the draft resolution in the security council and at ending the hostilities and restoring international law. the blocking of this resolution by the veto of the permanent member is con

we don't schedule the floor. the reason the bill is on the floor today is because the majority is bringing it to the floor. i mean, i would love to bring -- i'd love to be able to have the power as a minority to bring legislation to the floor because if we could, i tell you what, it wouldn't be this bill. it would be a bill dealing with energy. a bill trying to bring down the price of gasoline which is at $5 a gallon in some states. it would be a bill trying to deal with the border situation. i wish we could schedule the floor. now, let's hope the american people are going to make a change this fall and put us in position where we can schedule the floor. if we do, if we get that power, we will focus on those kind of issues. the majority -- the majority leader of the house of representatives just said the reason the bill is on the floor today is because of the minority. that cannot happen. i wish it could but it can't. those are the kind of arguments we're getting. we should be focused on the issues the american p

. >> i now give the floor to mr. martin griffiths. >> thank you very much, madame president. and congratulations on presiding over this council. in these extraordinary times. we are here to speak about the humanitarian situation in ukraine. none of us want to be here today. we already had enough on our hands. we had no need for another war. which would have such a swift impact for the fastest growing refugee crisis in europe since the second world war. today indeed is not a date we had in mind. in the weeks before the offensive began in ukraine, organizations went about their business. they had been working in the donbass region providing people there with humanitarian aid. a business they have been doing chronically and without fanfare these past eight years. and they are still doing it today. however and whenever they can. but of course, they are also prepared for the worst to come. two weeks ago, few thought the scenario in which we find ourselves today was thinkable. it was essentially unplayable from the humanitarian perspective. and yet, that humanitarian community did

i give the floor to the representative of china. >> thank you, adam president. madam president, first of all, i think to --wish to thank undersecretary griffiths and ms. russell for their briefings. we are gravely concerned about the rapidly changing situation in ukraine, and deeply deplore the increasing number of civilian casualties. we appeal for the maximum degree of restraint, and that the intensification of diplomatic efforts, to ensure the protection of civilian life and basic needs, and avoid the emergence of a large-scale humanitarian crisis. russia and ukraine have reached a consensus through the establishment of humanitarian corridors, and it must be ensure that those stay open. china put forward a six-point initiative on the situation in ukraine. first, they must abide by impartiality and neutrality in order to vent the escalation of humanitarian issues. second, all attention should be given to provide humanitarian assistance of those countries hosting those people. third, the protection of civilians. in particular, protection of vulnerable groups of