Jim Webb: “Today's hearing will examine the impact of our legislation on our antitrafficking efforts in Asia.”

If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government.

The disagreements over sovereignty and the potential for conflict have only increased.

Senator Webb, your efforts with respect to Burma have played an essential role in this regard.

I would like to take some time at this point to talk about some events in Asia. I think we all need to be paying very close attention to them. Before I do that, I would like to clarify my position on the vote we are going to be taking this…