Jim Webb: “Our history on the subject as a government has not been particularly good. There has been a lot of denial.”

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.

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.

when you make that determination, you should be making it in the U.S. Congress not by one individual of whichever party who happens to be the President.

I think if the administration had properly put the issue before the Congress, the likelihood is that it would have been supported.