[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 178 (Thursday, November 17, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8578]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             AMERICA FIRST

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, recently we saw yard signs across our Nation 
proclaiming ``America First.''
  To put America first should mean defending our people against all 
enemies, foreign and domestic. That is a daunting task, indeed. No 
nation, including ours, is an island in a world where nuclear weapons, 
predatory armed submarines, cyber warfare, and space technologies 
encircle our globe and are ever-present threats.
  Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine reminds all of us that no 
freedom-loving nation can fold its tent. Liberty threatened by known 
expansionists and fervent regimes threaten world order. Russia is 
testing the resolve of NATO and our free world.
  I am old enough to have lived during an era in which Russia's 
historic aggression into territory that was not its own extended as far 
west as East Berlin, Germany.
  Russia is repeating its brutal history yet again on the European 
Continent, a continent in which our Nation's World War II war dead 
reached 183,588 and globally over 416,800.
  Our Nation cannot retreat from our alliances that protect us here at 
home and the rule of law the world around. Victory to Ukraine.

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