Newt Gingrich: “the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. Bereuter] is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and was a…”

“the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. Bereuter] is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and was a tremendously important part of our trip. It was a very important, I think, congressional delegation to Asia. We had a very strong membership of that delegation and representing both key Democrats and key Republicans here in the U.S. Congress. Overseas we had no partisanship. It was entirely one team functioning as Americans. In fact, on issues such as market widening, giving Americans more access to sales in other countries, we would have both a Democrat and a Republican making the case to make sure that people understood that we were united as one country in insisting on economic opportunity for Americans. Let me just say for my part that I thought there were a number of lessons to be learned. First, we visited South Korea and visited the fine young men and women of the 2d Division who are protecting South Korea and who are risking their lives on the North Korean border and who are spending a year away from their families in order to defend their country and our allies. It was very clear to me, first of all, that Seoul is now a capital of 13 million very increasingly prosperous people in an increasingly democratic society with a free press, free elections and all of the turmoil and challenges of freedom, and that that is true in large part because it stands behind the shield of American defense.”