Sander Levin: “Peace and nonproliferation should always be the top priority for the United States.”

Eliminating food assistance for 13 million Americans, as suggested by the latest Republican budget, will not reduce poverty and hardship, it will increase it.

Raising taxes on one and a half million working families by eliminating their refundable tax credit, as marked up by the Committee, will not lift families up, it will push them down.

As we watch the Russian occupation in Crimea and aggression against eastern Ukraine, we are reminded that this horrific human tragedy was designed by Stalin to crackdown on Ukrainian resistance to Soviet rule.

I support this measure that highlights this important area of international cooperation with one of America's closest friends and allies.