Randy Forbes: “I would like to recognize my other colleagues from Long Island: the gentleman from New York [Mr. Ackerman], the…”

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.

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 believe, if we are to maintain our credibility in the region, if we are to sustain confidence in the rebalance to Asia, that it is extremely important for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be ratified.