03/18/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"I just wanted you to know that today the Treasury Department has authorized--has initiated additional sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists."
"We are today providing immediately some $75 million of additional nonlethal assistance immediately to Ukraine."
"It is incorrect when it says that Congress could actually modify the terms of an agreement at any time."
"During my 29 years here in the Senate, I never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed anything comparable to this."