Cory Gardner

One of the things that I have supported and others on the committee have supported is the creation of a select committee on cybersecurity.

I think that is a significant problem that we face because we do not know who is in charge.

Simply put, our national and economic security depends on both securing our networks and effectively deterring our adversaries who are getting stronger, not weaker, by the day.

Do you think there are opportunities to eliminate or reform these kinds of burdensome regulations that can hamper this type of redevelopment and reinvestment?

In March of this year, I joined with Senator Bennet, my colleague from Colorado, in sending a letter to the FAA urging expeditious consideration of the situation to resolve it as quickly as possible.

One of my goals for the FAA reauthorization would be to include language that would allow airports to use remote towers.

I would encourage, of course, the FAA and the TSA, obviously in two different departments, to continue their work together to implement the Screen Fast Act.

I have long supported this project and look forward to the refiling of that project at FERC this summer.

Thank you, Mr. President. It is great to have our colleague from Georgia on the floor of the Senate once again, doing the outstanding job that he has always done for the people of Georgia, recognizing the great individuals back home who…

If you were to devise from scratch a body to promote a free and open order, you would band together the nations at the fulcrum of the region in Southeast Asia.

The strategic logic of ASEAN is that small and medium-sized nations in Southeast Asia can band together and use their collective weight to resist outside coercion and foster a free and open order, a rules-based order.

It is your full intent, though, that the Philippines has no hesitation on the agreement, the partnership?

There are some who believe that we need a stronger public diplomacy information campaign directed at China.

Free and open means sort an Asia of independent states, that they are not tributary to other parts of Asia.

I believe it is important that Taiwan participate in as many international organizations as we can.

We are not a nation that comes and goes from the Indo-Pacific. We have long been an Indo-Pacific nation.

The United States seeks to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

Our aim is for all nations to live in prosperity, security, and liberty, free from coercion and able to choose their own path.

We must fully fund those activities because a strategy with insufficient resources is no strategy at all.

The United States cannot afford to cede leadership in such a critical region.

The Chinese think they were Chinese before we ever arrived. They think they have a civilization that has its own view of the way things work.

If we work with China to address human rights, if we work with China to address intellectual property, if we work with China to address reforms when it comes to different laws and respect of the rule of law, that they will eventually come…

We agreed that the active promotion of these fundamental values only reinforces American leadership in Asia.

We cannot ignore the fundamental fact that it is Asia and Asia will be critical for the U.S. economy to grow.

We agreed that we must strengthen U.S. defense posture and increase security engagement with our allies in the region.