Political Quotes

“Today I rise in opposition to this amendment by my good friend, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi. I am grateful to see Chairman Fleischmann working with Ranking Member Marcy Kaptur as we oppose this amendment. This is a time when the Chinese Communist Party is conducting the largest nuclear buildup in world history. War criminal Putin is invading Ukraine and threatens nuclear weapons. The dictatorship in Tehran is invading Israel; it is developing nuclear weapons while chanting, ``Death to Israel, Death to America.'' In defense, we should be modernizing America's nuclear arsenal. We did not choose the war of dictators with the rule of gun who are invading democracies with rule of law, but we are in this. Ukraine has been invaded, Israel has been invaded, and they threaten Taiwan. Plutonium pit production is among the most critical national security needs. As with every weapon, we must continue to invest in improvements to our nuclear inventory to achieve peace through strength in the tradition, as the chairman has so correctly said, of Ronald Reagan. Sadly and incredibly, last night, BBC News broadcast a report: Russia has just rehearsed a massive nuclear strike capability. This was presented on Russian Putin's state TV last night as the defense minister reviewed with the war criminal Vladimir Putin of how current this is. The United States currently has a statutory requirement of producing 80 plutonium pits per year, as close as we can to 2030.…”