article_snippet: Some lawmakers are upset that lethal weapons haven't already been included as part of $75 million in new aid announced Wednesday.
article_snippet: Members of Congress from both parties have repeatedly urged Obama to provide Ukrainian soldiers with lethal weapons to defend Ukrainian soldiers.
article_snippet: Our allies deserve better,' Cory Fritz said.
article_snippet: CHEWING the defensive lethal assistance we authorized in December
article_snippet: In the Senate, a bipartisan group of 13 lawmakers wrote on Tuesday to Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran and Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the top dogs on the Appropriations Committee, asking Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran and Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the top dogs on the Appropriations Committee to set aside funds specifically for 'defensive weapons' earmarked for Ukraine. '
article_snippet: Another pair of senators, Tennessee Republican Bob Corker and New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez, reached across the aisle to jointly demand that the White House green-light new weapons allocations. '
article_snippet: APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED:
article_snippet: US senators from both sides of the political aisle want the White House to send weapons to Ukrainian soldiers, and Ukrainian soldiers're willing to spend taxpayer dollars to do it .
article_snippet: Word of Wednesday's new aid package came in a telephone call Wednesday from Vice President Joe Biden to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
article_snippet: the White House said Vice President Joe Biden also expressed concern that Russian-backed separatists are violating cease-fire agreements in eastern Ukraine and keeping out international monitors.
article_snippet: Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that administration officials are discussing lethal assistance and are watching whether the agreements that led to last month's cease-fire are implemented.
highlights_snippet: Group of 13 Republican and Democratic senators want Congress to appropriate money specifically to buy 'defensive weapons' for Ukraine .
  