Brian Fitzpatrick: “I think it is important that we constantly talk about and remind everybody that they are American citizens too.”

It’s going to send a message to Putin that we do have a pulse here, that we do care about Ukraine and that we are going to utilize our authority to help them.

“It’s probably not going to get 60 votes in the Senate, but it’s going to hopefully force the Senate to address the issue,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who signed the discharge petition and voted for the bill.

We are going to force this. We are going to make sure this becomes law.

This is a big, big problem. It puts the strain on the threads of democracy.