Ed Royce: “I want to thank Speaker Gingrich for putting together this delegation. The Congress plays a key role in making our…”

“I want to thank Speaker Gingrich for putting together this delegation. The Congress plays a key role in making our country's foreign policy and a trip like this gives us a much better understanding of the important issues we decide each year. It is important to me that this was a bipartisan delegation. America stands tallest when its foreign policy is widely supported. One of the things all of the members of the delegation agree on is the importance of Asia. There is no question the security and the prosperity of the United States is on the line. We saw this in North Korea when we visited some of the 37,000 American service men and women in Korea. Their mission is maintaining peace and helping to run out the clock on one of the last vestiges of the cold war, the last Stalinist regime there in North Korea. We owe these Americans our strongest support, including, in my view, the best missile defense system that we can give them.”