It will be a long time before China is ready to be in something like TPP, but I think the Chinese leaders see momentum behind it.
The Southeast Asian allies and likeminded partners are going to be key going into the future.
I would say the countries we are dealing with in TPP--they would be much better off in the kind of system that we are promoting as opposed t...
I would like to see the U.S.-Philippine relationship grow much, much stronger.
We need to provide a lot more of that kind of focused attention, face time, acknowledgement of the importance of those alliances.
I would say that that is a priority.
I represent a state that is 90 percent dependent on shipping and the Jones Act does provide us with that reliable service.
Would you all agree that cybersecurity is an ever-changing environment? It is like the new arms race.
If the fiscal year 2015 NDAA is executed and the transfer of AH-64 Apaches from the Army National Guard (ARNG) to the Active Component (AC) ...
Without the contribution that the Jones Act brings to the support of our industry there is a direct threat to national defense.
I would hate to think of an Iranian ship that has LNG that's sitting in the middle of St. Louis' port.