Bill Keating

We think this is a smart piece of legislation and authorizing and, you know, funding CEPI would be incredibly helpful.

It just strikes me as we are making a statement and a contradictory one to everything you said.

I really think it is sending some kind of message to our close allies.

Didn't Mexico--Mexico participated in this, yet the U.S. is absent. Forty-seven countries pledging to this, and do not you think that undercuts our efforts?

You cannot see how that undercuts your mission?

Our allies have come together in unprecedented ways in Europe under the COVID-19 pandemic.

We realize it is in our self-interest--security interest, economic interest, and, indeed, our healthcare interest.

The House will come forward with appropriations with strong investments on the international front in many areas.

It is in our interest, it is in their interest, I think it is in a global interest to do that.

I think it is a message of showing how interested our committee is and Congress is on improving our transatlantic relations.

I mean, withdrawal of the Paris accord, threats toward removing ourselves from NATO, notwithstanding the progress that I think we are making in NATO, and other seemingly lack of willingness to participate or to keep our allies informed as…

However, I do not know how we do those things when we have a administration that, in my view, seems to be hostile in its approach toward participating in all of these efforts.

We are tragically on our way to 600,000 deaths from COVID-19 worldwide during what has been the most significant upheaval in global security and stability since World War II.

We cannot make these reforms if we just walk away from the table.

Let's be clear: Taiwan is an independent nation, and China, the Chinese Communist Party specifically, is not a friend.

The perception that somehow something came across the President's desk and he missed it just does not cut it with me.

This issue is going to be like the coronavirus. This is not going away.

I find it very surprising that that kind of information was not brought directly to the President of the United States.

The sacrifices of our military and the American national security interests should, as always, remain paramount.

Party politics and everything aside, the one thing, if we do nothing else, one of the most basic and most fundamental duties is to do everything in our power to keep Americans safe.

Thank you for your straightforward way you are addressing the Lafayette Square issue and civil law enforcement.

I would like your comments on how much more effective it is to work in concert with these responses, particularly with our European allies.

The fact that we are complicit in this Putin enabling is troubling.

We have the capacity and Congress has the capacity to tighten this up.

Money is being laundered in the United States with real estate and art, and that much we know.