Chuck Grassley: “two or three times lately, I have been coming to the floor to have a conversation with my colleagues on the subject of…”

“two or three times lately, I have been coming to the floor to have a conversation with my colleagues on the subject of national security. Remember, all of us, that wars are being waged right now in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and I presume elsewhere on this globe. We have uncertainty and unrest looming on the horizon in the South China Sea and the Horn of Africa. There are also serious national security concerns right here in the United States. For the last 3 years, our own southern border, hundreds of thousands of migrants from around the world have come to America without our permission, including people on the Terrorist Watchlist. Earlier this month, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of NATO, the most successful military alliance in modern history. Winston Churchill sowed the seeds for the idea of NATO. He did this in the aftermath of the failed League of Nations. He delivered his speech called ``Sinews of Peace''-- he did this in America's heartland--a famous speech at a college campus in Fulton, MO. Churchill spoke of two great dangers that imperil the hearth and home of common people. Those two dangers are war and tyranny. In his speech, he called for a military coalition to build what he called a ``temple of peace'' that would be, as he said in a quote, a ``force for action, and not merely a frothing of words.'' That was Churchill's way of saying a blueprint for peace that actually worked.…”