Thomas A. Garrett: “Before we hear from our leader, I yield 15 seconds to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. West).”

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

We have an ability--and a responsibility... to be a check on executive power by virtue of speaking when we are in disagreement.

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.