06/11/2008
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"We hope that there will be a reconsideration, specifically of what's happened here in Georgia."
"I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act."
"The Vice President, and the President, who thought it important enough to send him there on this kind of mission in the middle of this kind of crisis, I just would not underestimate the importance of ..."
"Russia has just taken a military action against one of its neighbors."