[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 116 (Wednesday, July 11, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H6101]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                                  NATO

  (Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, for nearly 70 
years now, the United States has led the Western alliance standing up 
to first the Soviet Union and then Russia within the organization known 
as NATO.
  Whether the President of the United States was Democrat or 
Republican, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Bush, Obama, it made no 
difference. Standing up and supporting our Western European allies, 
standing up and supporting NATO was an absolute given and, frankly, not 
even a partisan issue. Yet under this President and this 
administration, we now have, for the first time ever in the post-World 
War II era, a real question about American commitment to NATO and to 
the Western alliance.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the Trump administration to follow the bipartisan 
lead of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to support NATO and support 
our Western allies. It has underpinned peace for 70 years.

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