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“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to thank Mr. Royce and Mr. Engel for their leadership. I also want to thank Mr. McCarthy, Speaker Ryan, and Leader Pelosi for their strong support of this resolution. Mr. Speaker, I went to Brussels over the Memorial Day break. We met in Brussels with the NATO leaders. The Deputy Secretary General was there, and we spoke about the confidence that our European allies had, and needed, for the continuing viability of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and our commitment to the mutual defense of the members of NATO. That has been for 70 years the critical--over 70 years, really--the critical stability that we have seen in the European Plain, and it needs to continue to be. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to cosponsor this resolution, which reaffirms our Nation's commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's article 5 and the common defense among our NATO allies. For 70 years, as I said, NATO has kept the peace in Europe and around the world. Now, that does not mean that we have had peace everywhere in the world, but it does mean that we have not had world conflagration, as we saw in the last century. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the fall of the Iron Curtain, NATO's unity in the face of common threats has helped prevent a direct Soviet attack against America and against our allies. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has been adapting to meet threats new and old.…”