Rob Portman: “First, I want to thank my colleague and cofounder and cochair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus for his comments today. What…”

“First, I want to thank my colleague and cofounder and cochair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus for his comments today. What you just heard was that the White House has sent the application for membership to NATO for Finland and Sweden to the U.S. Senate. It now goes to our committee, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and then, I hope, to the floor soon. I suspect there will be an overwhelming vote because everybody in this Chamber understands the importance not just of NATO expansion but of these two countries in particular. I thank my colleague for offering those words today, and my hope is we can move very quickly on that. ____________________”