Ukraine
February 25th, 2022
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is an act of war that warrants a swift and crippling response from the United States and its allies.
February 22nd, 2022
The United States must impose devastating sanctions against Putin's interests, including immediate and mandatory sanctions permanently putting an end to his Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
February 2nd, 2022
The United States and the rest of the world is waiting for President Biden to step up to the challenge. I believe we have a responsibility to stand with Ukraine and help its people defend its sovereignty and its democracy....
November 9th, 2021
I recently led a group of colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden urging the Biden Administration to take swift action against Russia’s most recent buildup at the Ukrainian Border.
October 1st, 2020
The recent U.S. Senate report about the business dealings of Hunter Biden, aided and abetted by the influence of his dad is explosive despite the major media's suppression of the story.
March 16th, 2018
Since Russia’s seizure of Crimea in early 2014, American and European efforts to resolve the standoff in Ukraine and reverse Russian aggression have failed. Despite talks, sanctions, and repeated ceasefire agreements,...
September 28th, 2016
A Dutch-led investigation team said Wednesday that the surface-to-air missile that downed a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people aboard, came from Russia and was fired from territory held by pro...
October 12th, 2015
Imagine American-made energy coursing through a stronger U.S. economy and flowing to our allies around the world - in Ukraine, Europe and the Baltic states. This is Putin’s worst nightmare and a dream for the millions of...
February 11th, 2015
Within the last year, Mr. Putin has flagrantly and deliberately violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the Budapest Memorandum, and the Minsk Protocol.
November 4th, 2014
Send a message to Mitch McConnell:Your Majority Leadership should be guaranteed. Here's how. Republicans lead thus far in Colorado mail-in ballots. However this state scares me most because the rule is an invitation to...
February 25th, 2022
It is imperative that crippling sanctions are placed on the Russian economy immediately. Russia must know that its actions are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
February 4th, 2022
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki and other admin had in the last week or more doubled down on the word even as Ukraine's President Zelensky openly disputed the alarmist assessment, essentially telling Biden directly to 'calm down' the...
January 24th, 2022
I recently introduced the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, which would authorize the President to enter into lend-lease agreements directly with Ukraine and provide military equipment necessary to protect...
June 7th, 2021
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is a “real weapon” and expressed surprise and disappointment in U.S. President Joe Biden's approval of the project.
December 10th, 2018
Vladimir Putin has again reminded the world that he has no respect for international law, sovereignty of neighboring states, or peace in our world. Since 2014, Russia has illegally occupied Crimea and fueled a war in Eastern...
November 7th, 2016
Hillary Clinton is corrupt, Hillary Clinton is a criminal who was careless with national security and Hillary Clinton is not even a nice person as evidence from her State Department security who simply didn’t want anything...
January 15th, 2016
In his State of the Union message, President Obama claimed that America’s standing as a world power is greater than when he first took office.
March 13th, 2015
Following press reports that President Obama negotiated a secret deal with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and unilaterally agreed not to provide lethal assistance to Ukraine, I sent
February 5th, 2015
The Obama administration must stop the handwringing that has characterized the president’s foreign policy and immediately provide lethal military assistance to Ukraine. After failing for nearly a year to change Russian...
September 24th, 2014
I was very pleased to hear President Obama’s strong condemnation of Russian aggression in Ukraine at the UN General Assembly today.As Putin continues to pursue an expansionist and dangerously adventuresome worldview, these...