Political Quotes

“I rise today to celebrate yet another major bipartisan victory that is included as part of the National Defense Authorization Act that the House has passed and the Senate is preparing to pass. As it so happens, today is the 1-year anniversary--1 year to the very day that the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to condemn the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany. By a vote of 433 to 105, the Members of the European Parliament called for the project to be cancelled because ``It is a political project that poses a threat to European energy security and the efforts to diversify energy supply.'' In the coming days, the U.S. Congress will answer the call to stop this profoundly dangerous project. The House has acted, and the Senate will act very soon. As part of the National Defense Authorization Act, sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline are included. The Cruz-Shaheen legislation-- legislation I introduced, bipartisan legislation--Senator Shaheen and I and the Foreign Relations Committee brought our legislation to a vote. We won an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote--a vote of 20 to 2--out of the Foreign Relations Committee. In the past weeks and months, there have been extended negotiations to include this legislation, these sanctions, in the National Defense Authorization Act.…”