Bill Keating

If we are on the course we are now, and we could look back 30 years from the future, we would find out by far the greatest threat is China and their activities.

What we do as a Congress during this 2-year period... will have fundamental impact on our relations with our most important allies.

We know that the Russians are using energy as a weapon against our allies, and this bill reassures Europe and shows America's willingness to help our transatlantic partners in their energy growth.

A generation ago, the ties the United States had with European nations were valued.

In times that are more poignant, we observe shared sacrifices and loss.

In times of happiness, we celebrate. We renew this relationship with uniquely Americanized holidays.

Like so many of us, my grandparents were Europeans who became Americans.

NATO is both indispensable and in crisis.

I could not agree with you more. I think we are talking just the opposite approach. Tariffs are divisive...

NATO's single greatest challenge today is, for the first time in NATO's history, the absence of strong, committed U.S. Presidential leadership.

Europeans must contribute more to their defense.

Congress should reaffirm regularly the U.S. commitment to NATO.

It is absolutely a security issue, and diversity helps them not be leveraged by Russia in specific ways.

We all know that Russia has used that as a weapon in the past.

When I came away even as recently as a couple weeks ago looking long range at the challenges that we have and our European allies have, China was front and center in my mind coming home with the kind of strategy investments they are making.

The trade-off is not even close.

This is an existential issue regarding their species. And it is that critical.

Is the role of Congress as an oversight agent critical in that regard, to maintain that we are doing all we can so those gaps do not exist between different agencies and our intel agencies?

In your testimony, you made it clear that Russia was in violation of the INF Treaty. It is a belief I have and I think most of us have.

I am a firm believer in that we need to develop an independent standard, kind of like what we have for CMMI.

I would suggest, too, as a final comment, that it is too late now, but, as we go forward, before the administration is talking about the use of military force in this situation, keeping that as an option, that they should have sincere…

How many of those countries have said that the use of military force is an option and should be on the table?

I think it plays right into the hands of the dictator that is our adversary right now.

I believe strongly that we are hurting our cause and the cause of the Venezuelan people.

I think it plays right into Maduro's rhetoric about the U.S. involvement.