Adam Kinzinger
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Adam Kinzinger is a former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 16th congressional district, serving from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Kinzinger gained national attention for his outspoken views on various political issues, particularly his criticism of former President Donald Trump. He was one of the few Republicans to support the impeachment of Trump and served on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot.
I would also like to express my support for the U.S.-South Korea 123 agreement.
I will just say this is a good bill, and I urge my colleagues to support it. I yield back the balance of my time.
I believe it is important to talk about this, given the fact that nuclear is the only base load power supply that runs around the clock without producing carbon.
The President has announced that in January 2017, all American troops will be out of Afghanistan.
I think it's very important to note that there was kind of a mutual understanding that your country will never leave you behind, if you never leave your country behind.
There are going to be a lot of challenges. In fact, 2 weeks ago the President announced his plan to withdraw nearly all American service members from Afghanistan at the beginning of 2014, combat mission ending at the end of 2014.
The important thing to do at the very top of this is for everybody to remember why we are in Afghanistan in the first place, and that is it was a beautiful day in September and we were attacked right in the United States of America when we…
I think the failure of the United States of America to enforce the red line in Syria... has been one of the biggest foreign policy blunders.
If this was a Republican administration I would be screaming just as loudly about the decline of American leadership around the globe.
I am a big believer that it is high time for the United States and the West to get involved and to ensure the overthrow of the Assad regime and to support the Free Syrian Army.
I am a big supporter of the intentions of this program and especially its modernization.
I think it is important just to mention on that that, again, at a time when we are looking at what is happening, I would hope the French--I understand the economic pressure and I am not here to bash the French.
In light of the U.S. decision to suspend exports that could strengthen the Russian military, does the U.S.
I hope in Congress we consider that when we are dealing with our budget priorities.
I would just remind everybody in the--about the situation in Ukraine that an agreement was signed by these countries to respect the territorial integrity of a country that is now being torn apart by a nation like Russia.





