Political Quotes

“tomorrow marks 1 year since President Trump signed into law the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017, CAATSA, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both the House and the Senate. He did so with strenuous objections to what he called an encroachment on the Executive's ability to negotiate, and claimed that, ``As President, I can make far better deals with foreign countries than Congress.'' Unfortunately, despite his claims, the President has made no such deal. Russia continues its attacks on our country, with reports this week of another concerted effort on Facebook to influence the 2018 midterm elections. Despite this, the President has repeatedly cast aside the facts of the Russian Government's interference in our democracy and inspires little confidence in this body that he will take seriously the duty to prevent it going forward. So I remind my colleagues today, we must take on the duty to protect our democracy from foreign interference, and we must continue to work in a bipartisan fashion to ensure appropriate legislative guard rails are in place on the U.S. policy toward Russia, to ensure that the Kremlin's aggression is punished, not excused, and to build resilience so that it will not happen again. The sanctions we enacted in CAATSA, including related to the Russian defense and intelligence sectors that were the source of past attacks against us, are part of this effort.…”