The US government's latest statement about the violence in Ukraine indicated that the Obama administration could be drawing up an executive order to impose measures, which might include financial sanctions, on the Ukrainian government, said Voice of America.
Following is a text of the prepared remarks by President Barack Obama for his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday a bill to advance a temporary extension of unemployment benefits to over one million people without jobs. The measure was sponsored by Nevada Republican Dean Heller and Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed.
President Barack Obama addressed a litany of topics in his year-end press conference on Friday, CNN reported. As if this was the worst year of his presidency, Obama said there have been many successes. "Among those are an increase in wireless capacities in classrooms, a manufacturing hub in Youngstown, Ohio, that will "build on the renaissance we're seeing in manufacturing" and the fact that the U.S. is "producing more oil and natural gas in this country than we're importing,"
