Jim Webb: “this is, I think, a fresh opportunity to try to bring some consistency into our policies.”

We look forward to the visit of President Thein Sein next week.

I would like to take a couple of minutes this morning to discuss Senator Sessions' amendment which we will be voting on shortly, amendment No. 3009, which I cosponsor, and explain my views on why this amendment is important in terms of the…

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

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.