Randy Forbes: “We ought to have a commitment... to make sure that we are doing whatever we can in Congress to get this foolish thing…”

The threats to freedom of navigation that emanate from the South China Sea and reverberate globally are a great enough threat to the United States.

I am not really--there may be a lot of excuses for not getting there by 2020 for the Air Force, but I am not listening to excuses on the civilian side anymore.

There is no legal authority to draw a big circle in the water a thousand miles long and then claim it as some sort of special zone or internal waters.

I do not see it as inevitable that we will have a confrontation with China in the South China Sea if we have the correct strategy to avoid such confrontation and potential conflict.