Thank you.

Thank you.

Senator Shaheen and Senator Blumenthal, who have been such giants, working on this for a long, long period of time.

I've got a speech here.

I'm not going to give it, as it's written.

This is a good day.

It's a good day for freedom.

him.

But then again, the culture of the

country has changed pretty substantially.

When I came to the Congress, Tip O'Neill was the speaker, famous speaker, Massachusetts and Irishman, an Irishman that had all the trappings of being Irish with his stories and it was with his... hail fellow well man he was just a he filled up a room and but also the minority leader was a guy named bob michael from peoria illinois and the reason i bring that up is because you ask about the culture bob michael was a moderate conservative republican from the middle of the country and he represented his party well and was very popular in his party and he and tip got along very well they differed on issues They had arguments about which way we ought to go.

But they were respectful of one another.

They were friends.

They perceived one another as Americans, not just red and blue Americans, but Americans who cared about doing well for the country.

They may have had different perspectives.

And yet we hang up our whole operation of Washington over a debt ceiling.

WHERE IS THE HOUSE AT ON THIS?

FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NEUTRAL.

THERE'S A COMPLICATION HERE.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MR. ZELENSKYY AND DONALD TRUMP Has been a very bad one going back to Donald Trump's first term and the impeachment That he believes Zelensky played a role in Because it was a telephone call as you recall about Zelensky getting some dirt on Hunter Biden so we have a personal relationship here and personal relationships are important and apparently there is a some type of personal relationship between Putin and Trump to the extent that Mr. Trump, you know, had this red carpet treatment of a war criminal, in my view.

And that's complicated, I think, his view of this, because Don and I both agree this is pretty clear cut.

This is an authoritarian dictator committing a war crime, which he agreed not to do in 1994 when he got the nuclear material from Ukraine, the Budapest Agreement of 1994.

But this should be pretty clear-cut.

So where is that at in the House?