And then let's move on and with that Mr. Speaker I yield back.

General from Massachusetts yields back the gentleman from Texas is recognized.

Thank you Mr. Speaker I will yield myself a balance of our time.

The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Speaker our our adversaries, notably Russia, China,

Iran, are watching to see how we will respond.

Our reaction to these crises will determine how they will choose to proceed.

An important difference between this

facts of bills today and the previously passed Senate

supplemental is the addition of the 21st century peace through strength act.

Legislation is important as it includes sanctions and policies that counter our

adversaries through the inclusion of the repo act and the removal

of our payment for foreign pensions and requiring the administration to provide a game plan in Ukraine,

something that many of us have been asking for some time. Ronald Reagan told us, peace comes through strength.

By failing to act now, it will signal the opposite of strength and it will invite future aggression as failure to act has done so often in the past.

Speaker I also feel obligated to point out that this Congress has had two votes on providing aid to Israel, one that occurred in October

right after Speaker Johnson was elected, indeed it was one of his highest priorities.

And I thought responsibly that aid package was offset through cuts to other federal agencies

here.

Senator Schumer didn't see it that way and said we've never conditioned aid to Israel with anything so it has to be

an offset, can't be paid for.

So the house in February of this year,

I think it was Mr Calvert of California

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