Jim Webb: “I think the United States--we prepared intensively, we laid out what our goals were and how we would want to go about a…”

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

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

I agree. Well, let me ask Ms. Burkhalter because I am over my clock here.

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.