Ukraine Support Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I have some questions.

My first question is: If my friends across the aisle don't like this bill, why don't they draft their own? Why did this bill have to be forced on them? Why was it necessary to do a discharge petition? Where was their excitement about doing anything?

My second question is: Why hasn't the President of the United States said who he wants to win this war? He still has not said who he favors.

My next question is: When my friends talk about peace and they say that we need to be flexible, I want to know details. Does that mean we are going to give Putin a reward for raping and pillaging the Ukrainian people and that we are going to reward them with the land that they took in this aggressive nature?

This is the time to make those decisions.

We are now about to celebrate our 250th anniversary of independence, and we are reminded that our Nation was born in defiance of tyranny. Ukraine is fighting that same fight today, and this fight is the same reason we fought the Second World War.

Putin's goal stretches well beyond Ukraine. He seeks to erase a democracy, to replace freedom with fear, and to prove that brute force can triumph over the rule of law.

We cannot allow that to stand.

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