David Cicilline: “What we are really asking is what is best for our country in these early years?”

We have to recognize that would include occupying part of Russia, toppling their government, and replacing them with a different government.

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.

The future economic prosperity of our state is directly dependent on our ability to get this right.