The opportunity for an effective strategy, I think, now is before us and all it needs is some strong American leadership.

The Black Sea is a hot spot for the competition between Russia and the West over expansion of the transatlantic community.

NATO's open-door policy is really--the open-door phrase has become a destabilizing bromide.

I think it is a concern we should watch, but it is a manageable concern.

I recently introduced a bill with Senator Cornyn that would create a pilot program to provide cybersecurity training for veterans.

What is happening in New Hampshire a lot is that the appraisals that your loan program are doing are coming in low

I think it would be terrific to be able to get more of them to come into the Federal service as well.

I want to thank you and the Ranking Member for this hearing.

This year, I introduced another bipartisan bill that allows servicemembers who paused their student loan payments while deployed... to count that time toward their Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

what is happening to women and girls there is a critical concern for, I think, probably all Americans.

If we do not come in hard on this and united, U.S. and Europe, including European Union--if we do not do that then we are going to see a lot of this in the winter to come.

The current approach is not working.

Oh, I could not agree more. It should send a real warning signal to Germany on Nord Stream 2 as well.

I think this is something Turkey might actually welcome because they are often the target of Russian aggression.

I worry if we continue to hold that out and we are not able to make that happen... that undermines our efforts in both of those countries.

Well, thank you. I know we are coming to an end of the hearing, but I wanted to follow up a little bit on Senator Johnson's question.

In order to lead, we must be strong.

I want to move to NATO expansion. I, certainly, support Georgia and Ukraine's aspirations for MAP for NATO.