I ask my friend from Ohio--and I thank him for his remarks--if he has any other speakers. If not, I was hoping Ms. Moore would be here, but I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

In this forum a year ago, we all lamented the degree to which the global security environment was deteriorating.

Right now there is sitting in the docket here in our House business a $6.5 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine.

I can't say that I have found an ally who is urging us to reduce our nuclear deterrence.

I thank the gentleman for his personal remarks about how important the mail--receiving mail and receiving communication--is. There were 7 million people in the European theater during World War II, and there were many names that were…

In response to concerns over China's nuclear buildup, critics argue that the United States will still have thousands of more nuclear weapons than China.

We cannot risk dividing NATO at this precarious time.

For the first time in history, the nation is facing two potential strategic peer, nuclear-capable adversaries at the same time, who must be deterred differently.

We could be sending this money to Ukraine, and people are literally dying and will die in the next week needlessly.

What has become very clear to me is that these are people with a will to fight. They know they are fighting for their survival. They know they are fighting for their freedom. And that's a very dangerous thing for Vladimir Putin.

And frankly, that is going to be Putin's instinct.

When you're going up against the guerrilla, a guerilla style warfare, which is this is soon to be... the advantage of military units greatly erode.

Those Russian soldiers are in for a very rude awakening in the days and weeks ahead I believe.

I would consider everything that I do is district business and it is not my business.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Danielle Radovich has been my chief of staff for the whole time we have been here...

our goal is to be able to, you know, hand it off to a Democrat or Republican, hopefully a Democrat, but hand it off in as clean a fashion as possible

we get treated like second-class citizens out here in the hinterlands.

I think we end up tripping over ourselves. We really ought to go back and kind of do a look at some of the ethics rules...