Thomas A. Garrett: “I am prepared to close if the gentlewoman from Oregon would like to conclude her remarks.”

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

I would submit that the North Korean regime from 1950 has a history of making a promise and then breaking a promise.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.

I believe, paraphrasing, there are threats greater than an Islamist insurgency that's nationalist in its nature.