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After more than a half a year of delay, Congress passed a Ukraine aid bill on April 23. Soon, billions of dollars of military assistance will be flowing into the country, and the United States will begin building infrastructure to produce even more materiel. This video explores how this will change the war on the ground and why exactly it took so long for the legislation to pass.

0:00 Ukraine Aid Passes Congress
2:01 What the Bill Does
6:44 Why the Delay?
10:57 U.S. Status Quo Bias
12:52 The Hastert Rule
14:25 The House Majority Soap Opera
17:55 The Art of Logrolling

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Additional media courtesy Ukraine's office of the president: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqRsyh5aV5g

Media licensed under CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/):

By Governor Tom Wolf:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/governortomwolf/45838173705/

Media licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/):

By Rosavtodor.ru:
http://rosavtodor.ru/about/upravlenie-fda/upravlenie-stroitelstva-i-ekspluatatsii-avtomobilnykh-dorog/transportnyy-perekhod-cherez-kerchenskiy-proliv/novosti/301381

By Kremlin.ru:
http://en.kremlin.ru/catalog/keywords/78/events/50329
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/53500
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/57436
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60490
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73083
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73411
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73648