Rob Andrews: “We have had a long history of unfounded and inaccurate optimism on these questions.”

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

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

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