Rob Andrews: “We are deeply in their debt, and I appreciate you honoring their service with your remarks this morning.”

Provocation is not the goal of these questions; a sober analysis is.

I understand this is a conceptual proposal, but we don't legislate concepts; we legislate statutes and they have real impact on real people.

I think you are doing some of the most important work in our country and you are all doing it very well.

I think it is the worst-case scenario, in which our relations with the PRC would turn quite frigid.