As the Senator from Alaska would tell us all, Alaskan airspace is American airspace, period.

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This was a serious and blatant attempt by the Chinese to collect valuable data.

I thank my colleague for yielding. I also want to thank my sister, Crystal, and my other sister, April, for being with me here today. Mr. Speaker, last night, we heard President Biden's fairy tale version of the state of our union. I will…

It seems to me when you have a craft that is violating international airspace, and you have sensitive military installations... we should treat it the same.

But do you think if we had an American surveillance balloon going over sensitive Chinese Military sites; that the Chinese Government would have, for a minute, hesitated before taking it down?

Then what explains that delay, days of delay?

Why wouldn't a foreign military surveillance aircraft, violating U.S. airspace inherently be considered to have hostile intent?

I come to the floor today to talk about a very special constituent from Florida's Seventh Congressional District. Eugene Henleben was born in St. Louis 100 years ago on February 7. He served our great Nation on a PT boat during the Second…

You would think within the age of computers, we could schedule the Senate so that we didn't have to be three places at once.

Well, I have got to tell you, I think they would not hesitate if we violated their territorial airspace, to disable, and take down our surveillance platform.

It is a huge swath of air space that includes the airspace over territorial waters.

Alaska is part of the United States, full stop.

It defies belief that there was not a single opportunity to safely shoot down this spy balloon prior to the Coast of South Carolina.

The best way to avoid conflict with China is for President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party to have no doubt regarding the resolve of the U.S. Government to defend our territory and our interests.

I would associate myself with everything that you just said.

I think the three essential priorities to getting us to a clean energy future are: number one, storage; number two, storage; and number three, storage.

the permitting is a lot easier if you are putting gizmos on existing towers rather than cutting a new path through the people's backyards.