Jim Webb: “I can't emphasize strongly enough how important it is that, first of all, the law be obeyed here.”

There is no question for the United States that the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty obligation extends to the Senkakus.

I ask to speak on an amendment I have sent to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Amendments are not in order at this time, but it can be submitted.

I respectfully ask the Committee to work with me to bring this legislation to the Senate floor.

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.