The State Department should have been talking to us, and they were not.

I cannot sit here on March 19th knowing what's going on in Ukraine now, knowing that we have an Article 5 responsibility.

We need to do it not in a political way, but in a bipartisan way.

I believe that accountability ensures mistakes in the past are not repeated.

I am in the process of drafting a tough sanctions bill that will mandate the Administration to decouple the U.S. and our allies from Rosatom.

We must get serious, and that is why I am holding today's hearing.

President Biden's sluggish policies have consistently prevented Ukraine's victory, given Putin room to breathe, and dragged out this conflict.

The sanctions against the Putin regime have not convinced him to end this gruesome war.

We cannot stand idly by while components of American maritime infrastructure could be weaponized against us.

Nearly 80 percent of the ship-to-shore cranes in our ports in the United States come from CPMC.

I have witnessed first-hand the destructive power of communist regimes and have no interest in allowing the CCP to conduct industrial and economic espionage in our ports through their cranes.