Mark Warner: “Let me tell you, Senator, with that, our President slipped the engagement ring on. I don't know how long it will come…”

“Let me tell you, Senator, with that, our President slipped the engagement ring on. I don't know how long it will come before that issue is squarely before this Chamber to the effect that now the time has come to admit those nations. If my good friend will look at the map of Europe, as he does, I think, on a daily basis, and see that arch from Poland down through Hungary, the Czech Republic, on down through the next nations to be admitted, Romania and Bulgaria, it's an arch. And just as the Iron Curtain was dropped in the late 1940s by the Soviet Union facing west, that ring of countries constitutes an iron ring now, encircling much of Russia.”