I do not want to see us start a new Cold War.

The time to pass repeal and replace of the 2001 AUMF legislation is now long overdue.

So if we sit back as the No. 1 force, military force, in the world, we will watch in the next decade that Mandarin will replace English as the second language in Latin America.

Our partners in the region need our help, and our allies are questioning if the U.S. will be there to help.

I do think operations like the 2022 strike against Al Qaeda's leader in 9/11, plotter Ayman al-Zawahiri, should be authorized by Congress.

I voted for that authorization. And though I carry the burden of that vote, not for 1 second do I regret it.

We need Congress to reassert its proper authority over the power to declare war under the Constitution.

I have just proven with a few examples that China is on the offense while the United States is ignoring our allies in Latin America.

I am grateful that we have before us witnesses representing not only the U.S. Coast Guard, but also U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and the U.S. Department of State, which together represent three important components of national power in the…

I will not vote for anything that does not put an affirmative obligation in the U.S. Congress to cast a vote to use force. Period.

Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress alone the authority to declare war, and I believe it is our most solemn power.

I think one of the strengths we see still to this day in things like the D/ISIS coalition is the really the consistency and sustainability of that coalition.