Rob Andrews: “I just do not want there to be any misconception that if it is necessary to send these young men and women into combat…”

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

Reclaiming my time, the Senate passed a bill to keep the government running at your numbers that you wanted in budget. We are asking, give every Member of this House a fair up-or-down vote on that bill. Will you do that? I yield to the…

I believe that this rebalancing is the right priority for the country.