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Tim Ryan: I would also like to say before we close up, the President of the Ukraine, Victor Yushchenko, is going to be here…

On the recordApril 5, 2005
I would also like to say before we close up, the President of the Ukraine, Victor Yushchenko, is going to be here tomorrow. If you had followed everything that was going on with the West and the Russians and the poisoning, it was like a soap opera going on. I think it is an important point for us to make, he is going to be talking to a joint session of Congress, his election and his uprising and his move to power in the Ukraine was led by young people. We need to continue to try to encourage, not everyone has to run for office, not everyone has to be involved to the extent they make a career out of it, but it is so important when you see what is going on down here day in and day out and the lack of, I think, long-term vision. It is important because the young people are the ones who are going to be involved in the system longer than all of us are because they are younger. It is important for their voice to be heard.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing the upcoming visit of Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and the role of young people in political engagement.

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