After providing for our defense and national security, the most important role for the Federal Government is to facilitate interstate commerce through infrastructure.

I do not believe any member in this room would deny the fact that Russia, led by Mr. Putin, is a destabilizing factor in this world.

Whenever Putin attempts a new maneuver, he waits to see the international community's response, and when nothing happens he escalates.

We need to make it clear to the Russians that we can do to you what you can do to us.

We hate this term--mutually assured destruction on the nuclear side was not a good thing. But I think we need to make it clear to the Russians that we can do to you what you can do to us.

The Russians have developed an advanced set of tools to apply pressure on democracies around the world and they have shown their willingness to use it.

Democracy building takes longer. And sometimes in our society we like to kind of see it all done immediately.

This has shifted to a battle between democracy versus authoritarianism and the United States must respond accordingly.

The access to Chinese 5G from companies like Huawei in Europe remains a primary concern for the United States.

I am concerned about the news this week that our European and NATO ally, Romania, is now seriously considering doing business with a Chinese state-owned enterprise, China General Nuclear Power Group.

A lot of our differences get a lot of media attention, but there is way more that unites us than actually divides us.

Luckily, the agreement between Romania and China is not yet finalized. So, how can we engage with our partners in Romania to ensure that the bidding process for these projects is fair and transparent?

I would like to just mention, in short, a bill that we passed out of the House, the European Energy Security and Diversification Act.

I think increasingly our friends are going to be put in this kind of tough position

I believe President Obama should have been clear at the very beginning of what was happening.

I think the days of kind of consensus foreign policy and having polite debates has kind of gone away...

Cuba has already intervened militarily in our hemisphere. The Russians have already intervened militarily in our hemisphere.

I actually am really worried about really the last few years kind of where foreign policy has gone in terms of our ability to talk about it.

I a hundred percent believe that. I believe President Obama should have been clear at the very beginning of what was happening.

I want it to be an American decision, not influenced by especially the Russians.

I think it was a terrible message to send out of the foreign policy committee.

These calls are identified as a reputable source such as law enforcement or a government entity which is what heightens the likelihood of success.

I want to keep the theme today of moving with narrow, effective legislation aimed at bad actors.

If you look at what happened in Rwanda, one of the greatest regrets of the Clinton Administration is inaction because of a massacre.

the only thing that makes diplomacy effective as well as economic is a military option on the table