[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 69 (Friday, April 19, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2525]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, last week, on April 2, The 
New York Post published an op-ed which explained the proven 
conservative position of peace through strength.
  This confirms the world-changing success of promoting and expanding 
freedom of Senator Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.
  Nearly 20 countries now in central and eastern Europe and Central 
Asia are now free because we stood firm and stood up with our Allies to 
defeat the Communist threat, and now we are facing, indeed, war 
criminal Putin, who wants to recreate the Soviet Union.
  ``Kudos to Speaker Johnson: Moving Ukraine Aid is Critical to 
National Security'' by Daniel Kochis, senior fellow at the Hudson 
Institute--and I am very grateful that Ambassador Governor Nikki Haley 
will soon be a valued fellow at the Hudson Institute--quoting: 
``Speaker Mike Johnson's Easter announcement that he'll bring a new 
Ukraine-aid package to a vote . . . is welcome news.''
  Sadly, we are in a war we did not choose, between dictators with rule 
of gun invading democracies with rule of law, and we need to be 
standing firm for the borders of Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and the 
United States.

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