Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my dear friend Mr. Engel from New York, and I congratulate the authors of H. Res. 726. They have done a great job in building bipartisan support for this resolution. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this resolution. The United States must stand with the people of Ukraine in the face of Russia's naked aggression and reverse violations to Ukrainian sovereignty and prevent further Russian meddling and attacks on what they consider former Soviet republics. We must remember that this assault began in Crimea, part of Ukraine. It was in Crimea that Russian military forces violated, initially, Ukrainian sovereignty, and it was Russia then that ultimately illegally arranged for the annexation of this territory, territory of a sovereign country. Subsequently, we have witnessed further incursions by the Russian military into eastern Ukraine. Now Europe is attuned to the threat, but, Mr. Speaker, I am stuck on Crimea. Ignoring Russian aggression in Crimea only emboldened Putin to do it again in eastern Ukraine. I am very pleased that the authors of this resolution adopted the principles of our bipartisan legislation introduced earlier this year with Mr. Steve Chabot, and like the Crimea Annexation Non-recognition Act, which is H. Res. 726, formerly and utterly rejects Russian sovereignty over Crimea and calls on our allies to do the same.…”