Steve Chabot actually said...

"There is no other issue right now in the Asia-Pacific region more worrisome than the rise in tensions."

"We are witnessing a dangerously aggressive China trying to assert greater control over these territories."

"An American presence in Asia is built on maintaining peace and stability that is upheld through respect for international law."

"We have got to send, as a body, in a bipartisan manner, a strong message to China that these threatening and provocative moves to assert their maritime territorial claims are unacceptable."