The United States has not invested in Arctic infrastructure.
We must take this as a sign of things to come.
Unfortunately, the bureaucracy within the Executive branch has been slow to act on the growing threats in the Arctic.
We need new and secure infrastructure like icebreakers and deepwater ports; we needed them yesterday.
We can't let them do that.
We need to make sure that we are trying to close this very, very significant icebreaker gap.
The time now calls for bold, new ideas instead of old, failed approaches.
The DoD has been asleep at the switch on the Arctic.
This is a patriotic dedication to getting at a problem that we need to get at.
Thank God, the Dalai Lama said that the new Dalai Lama, it will be reborn, will not be born in China.
But I know one group that really hates this bill and that is the Chinese Communist Party.