If you look at all of the former Warsaw Pact countries that are now members of NATO, we are in a conflict that is global in nature. NATO is evolving from a static, land-based defense force to a security force that relieves our men and…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Speaker, if we were in Afghanistan by ourselves, perhaps this debate would be worthwhile, but the fact is we are not. I am presently serving as the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. The Afghan…

You know, if we accept that everything that everybody has said on both sides of the aisle is true, that is still not, in my view, a good financial reason to vote against this bill. It may be a good political reason, but it is not a good…

This Sunday, Ukrainians will go to the polls to elect a new President. The successful conduct of these elections is important to our country, the United States. As Vice President Biden said during his visit to Kiev last summer, ``we…

many Members have spoken from the heart and out of their conscience on either side of this issue today, and I want to talk about the procedure, because I am deeply troubled by the procedure that we are following here today on the House…

It is an old axiom that the only certainty in this world is uncertainty. I do not think anyone here, no matter how you are going to vote on this amendment, can seriously argue that we are not cutting defense in an orderly manner. What we…