I know nonsense when I see it, and this is poorly written nonsense, with all due respect to the gentleman from Texas.

Where is it in the Constitution of the United States that says that the U.S. House of Representatives, the representatives of the people of the United States, have any authority to call on the United States as a whole to do anything?

Russia has the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the entire world. It seems unlikely that Russia will be importing natural gas anytime soon.

Calls on Ukraine and European countries and former Soviet Republics to support energy diversification initiatives to reduce Russian control of energy exports, including by promoting energy efficiency and reverse gas flows from Western…

the status quo these days is that Western Europe imports gas from Russia, and there is a perception on the part of many that that creates a certain dependency on the part of Western Europe to Russia

But the fact is that there are irreconcilable differences between these two parts of the population.

There must be some kind of acknowledgement of the fact that the people in the eastern part of the Ukraine do not want to be part of the EU, and the people in the western part of the Ukraine do not want to be lorded over by Russia.

Just to be historically accurate, it wasn't Stalin that added the eastern part of the Ukraine. It was Lenin, and it was Khrushchev.

I support this resolution and strongly object to and condemn Russian interference in any other country, including neighboring countries.

I think the resolution is at best a half-measure that doesn't acknowledge the underlying cause or attempt to come up with a solution.

This is a critical moment for them, and we have to be on the side of those who are aspiring to self-government and individual liberty.