Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024

Floor Speech

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Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, Speaker Johnson said he was a wartime Speaker and was a child of the eighties influenced by Reagan who went to the Berlin Wall and said: ``Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.''

I am a child of the sixties and John Kennedy, and I heard him say in his inaugural address: ``Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.''

Mr. Reagan and Mr. Kennedy each expressed what is the will and the heritage of the American Government in supporting liberty around the world.

These bills, that protect the Indo-Pacific, Israel, and Ukraine, protect these countries against attacks on their sovereignty and their existence. They are free countries that celebrate democracy. We have a duty to support them, and we are engaging in that American tradition. I support the bills, and I urge everyone to do so.

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