Jim Webb: “But when you have a situation like in this case where the justification is humanitarian, you can see the potential for a…”

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

I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Virginia.

So if Tiananmen occurred today with the Chinese Government rolling out tanks and killing hundreds, if not thousands, of its own people, that it would also fit the Panetta rule.

We have had a lot of discussion over the last 6 years about the so-called pivot to Asia. I will say as someone who has spent a great deal of time in and out of east Asia that this pivot was heavily influenced by the actions, again, taken…