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.

If we really want to be effective with China, we should deal from strength.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

NATO is both indispensable and in crisis.

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