To maintain this advantage, we need strong American leadership along two fronts.

I would ask to be able to work with you and other members to either extend the authority or remove the cap and potentially raise the threshold of funding we are able to spend.

We are very concerned about the enormous investments Russia is making in nuclear forces that are not captured by existing arms control agreements.

I know that you would agree that every single person who is responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi needs to be held accountable.

You are using emergency security powers to create tariffs on our closest allies.

Is that the way we should approach our Article 5 agreement with our NATO countries?

I think we should, and I think, Mr. Chairman, we should make that request formal in terms of our committee.

The EU officials that we met with, they used words like 'painful' and 'hurtful,' and they meant it sincerely.

It is important that our allies know this, too.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Sires), the chair of the subcommittee dealing with the very important issue that we are dealing with now in the Western Hemisphere and Venezuela, and I associate myself with his…

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