Dana Rohrabacher: “I say to my European colleagues that protection is not protectionism.”

Yes, thank you much, Chairman King, Ranking Member Cohen, and other members of the subcommittee.

Under normal circumstances this problem would be addressed by local government.

I mean, Ukraine, we've spent $1 billion in Ukraine, I guess, in the last couple years and everybody acknowledges the level of corruption there is just dramatic.

Isn't it somewhat presumptuous of us to go in and then to actually take more of that $833 billion that we are spending in deficit to go in to try to help them--push them in certain directions, even though they already have a democratically…