Ed Royce: “We needed a separate branch. We needed an air force.”

Let me begin by thanking Mr. Engel, the author of this measure, and I express my deep appreciation for his help in all that we have undertaken with our committee. There are, as Eliot knows, 70 million men, women, and children who have been…

Vladimir Putin is not our friend, and there is simply no comparing the actions of the United States with those of Putin's Russia.

Ultimately, Helsinki was a squandered opportunity to challenge Vladimir Putin's false narratives on issues including Ukraine and Syria and Russia's ongoing interference in our democracy.

But it does meet, in my personal opinion, the definition of genocide.