JUST IN: Ted Cruz Attacks Biden In Epic Speech Slamming Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Policy

the senator from texas is recognized mr president i want to talk today about russia i want to talk about vladimir putin i want to describe to this chamber a bipartisan victory that together we won and then i want to describe tragically how president joe biden is giving that victory away to putin and russia to understand this issue we need to go back to the summer of 2019. in the summer of 2019 russia was in the process of constructing a pipeline called the nordstream 2 pipeline behind me is a map demonstrating where the nordstream 2 pipeline runs it is a pipeline that was to run from russia to germany going underneath the baltic sea the summer of 2019 the pipeline was nearly complete at various periods in time it was 70 percent complete 80 percent complete there was widespread consensus that if this pipeline were completed it would have devastating consequences in a few minutes i will discuss those consequences in greater detail but in an effort to stop the devastating consequences i worked on bipartisan legislation along with senator gene shaheen democrat from new hampshire and we introduced bipartisan sanctions legislation designed to stop the nordstrom 2 pipeline that legislation when we introduced it was almost immediately subject to a russian disinformation campaign in europe the russians were saying to anyone who would listen that the cruz shaheen sanction legislation could never pass that there was no way congress would come together in a bipartisan manner to stop the nordstrom 2 that it was hopeless that no one needed to be concerned that this legislation could pass they also made the argument as part of their disinformation campaign that the pipeline was nearly complete so that u.s sanctions could not stop it there was nothing that could be done to stop it well mr president to the surprise of nobody who follows these issues that russian disinformation was precisely that it was disinformation it was lies the senate foreign relations committee senator shaheen and i worked with our colleagues and our legislation was initially voted out of the senate foreign relations committee by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 20 to 2 overwhelming bipartisan support at that point senator shaheen and i began working to get it passed on the floor of the senate while we were doing so the russian disinformation continued this cannot pass we endeavored to have our sanctions legislation attached to the national defense authorization act which was moving in the fall and winter of 2019. to do so mr president was not easy to do so we needed to get the explicit sign off of the chairman and the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee we needed the explicit sign off of the chairman and the ranking member of the senate armed services committee we needed the explicit sign off of the chairman and ranking member of the senate banking committee and then we needed the explicit sign off of senator mcconnell and senator schumer the republican and democratic leader respectively all eight of those individuals all eight of those senators needed to agree with our legislation for this to proceed on the ndia and then mr president we had to do the exact same thing in the house of representatives and get the chairman and ranking member on foreign relations on armed services on banking and we had to get the sign off of nancy pelosi and kevin mccarthy to get the explicit support of all 16 of those congressional leaders eight republicans and eight democrats in any world is not easy and i will say on my part on senator shaheen's part we invested dozens if not hundreds of hours in terms of talking to our colleagues to build that bipartisan consensus and we ended up getting that overwhelming support in many ways that support was miraculous why is that well one of the reasons why nordstrom 2 is particularly problematic is that russia is building nordstrom 2 in order to cut off ukraine there is currently a pipeline running through ukraine and through nordstrom 2 russia has the power to starve ukraine why is it miraculous in december of 2019 that we're able to pass this legislation well if you recall what was happening in the house of representatives in december of 2019 the house of representatives was in the middle of impeaching president donald trump for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors concerning ukraine if you'll recall mr president from the trial we held on this senate floor central to the allegations that were raised by democrats against president trump was conduct concerning ukraine it remains astonishing that right in the middle of a partisan gladiatorial battle concerning ukraine simultaneously we were able to get republicans and democrats to work hand in hand to agree with complete consensus that we were going to come together and stop the nordstrom 2 pipeline we were going to stop what vladimir putin was doing in december of 2019 our legislation passed the cruz shaheen sanctions legislation passed now mr president i will remind you of what the russian disinformation had been when we first introduced it they said it will never pass and they said even if it does pass it's too late for it to have any effect well my memory serves me correctly president trump signed the cruz shaheen sanctions legislation at 7 00 pm on a thursday at 6 45 pm on a thursday 15 minutes before our sanctions legislation was signed into law the company that was laying the pipeline in the baltic sea announced that it immediately halted laying the pipeline and it was lifting anchor and sailing away it was an incredible bipartisan victory the pipeline was stopped in its tracks what happened next was absolutely nothing for a year the pipeline laid dormant the talking point from vladimir putin and now sadly adopted by joe biden in his administration is the pipeline is 90 complete or the pipeline is 95 complete but mr president it is not rocket science that a 90 complete pipeline is 0 complete until you complete both ends of the pipeline it ain't nothing but a hunk of metal at the bottom of the ocean nothing is traveling through it until the pipeline is complete and online for a year the pipeline lay dormant then in the year 2020 senator shaheen and i joined together again in a second round of bipartisan legislation a second round of sanctions we had stopped the north stream two pipeline in its tracks for a year putin was stopped altogether and and we came together for a second piece of legislation the second version of cruz shaheen and just like the first sanctions we passed it through both houses of congress and it was signed into law with overwhelming bipartisan support nearly unanimous support of all 535 members of congress so we now had two major pieces of sanctions legislation on the books and the those sanctions had been working for a year the pipeline was stopped then in november of 2020 was the presidential election and in the wake of the presidential election joe bidens and his transition team almost immediately began telegraphing weakness to russia members of joe biden's foreign policy advisory team in the german newspapers expressed openness to nordstrom 2 being built expressed a willingness to try to circumvent the sanctions that had been working and had worked for over a year within days of joe biden and his team expressing weakness to putin russia and putin heard and they began the process of getting ready to return to building the pipeline russia did return to building the pipeline you know what day madam president january 24th 2021 four days after joe biden was sworn into office putin said we're safe we're free our man joe is in the white house and we know that the administration is not going to follow u.s law anymore and so on january 24th the russians returned to building the pipeline now for two years this body had been united republicans and democrats that we were going to stop this pipeline but joe biden and his administration decided instead to waive the sanctions decided instead to give vladimir putin what amounts to a multi-billion dollar gift and not just a gift one time if this pipeline is allowed to go online it will put billions of dollars in putin's pockets every year year after year after year what are the consequences of nordstrom 2 number one russia gets richer russia gets stronger russia gets billions of dollars that it can use to build its military to threaten its neighbors to threaten our allies to endanger the lives of americans and our friends number two europe is hurt our friends and allies in europe are made even more dependent on russian madam president our former colleague in this body senator john mccain may rest in peace he had a phrase for russia that was memorable that i've used many times he referred to russia as a gas station with a country attached that is putin's plan it is very simple putin is a petro tyrant he's a tyrant he's a bully he's a kgb thug and all of his aggression is funded by selling oil and gas together republicans and democrats in congress had taken billions out of putin's pockets and sadly joe biden and kamala harris decided the world would be a better place if instead putin had billions more not just this year or next year but for decades to come when putin is dead and buried and the next dictator is ruling over russia that next dictator will be reaping the benefits of this pipeline indeed as a result of joe biden's decision many are referring to this pipeline as the biden poop putin pipeline for a very simple reason it is putin that is building it it is putin that is profiting by it and the only reason putin is allowed to do so is because president joe biden has given him a multi-billion dollar gift that strengthens russia and it weakens europe it makes europe subject energy blackmail putin has demonstrated a willingness and indeed a history of using energy blackmail of using those who are dependent on natural gas to coerce them to do what he wants in the dead of winter when people are at risk of freezing to death putin has threatened to and has in fact cut off gas to endanger the lives of innocent civilians in order to coerce governments to bending to his will as a result of joe biden's surrender to vladimir putin putin will have the continued ability to exercise economic blackmail against europe but not only that europe has energy needs those energy needs could be readily satisfied by american energy europe has expressed a willingness and in some instances an eagerness to import american energy but joe biden has decided that american jobs are unimportant his first day in office biden shut down the keystone pipeline killing 11 000 jobs in the united states including 8 000 union jobs 8 000 high-paying union jobs that with a stroke of a pen joe biden eliminated and at the exact same time that biden is shutting down jobs at a pipeline in america he is green lighting and giving a gift of vladimir putin of a pipe pipeline between russia and germany producing jobs in in russia producing billions of dollars in russia and taking away jobs in america this pipeline is a disaster as the afternoon goes on i will elaborate on different aspects in which it is harmful and on the steps we can and should be taking to stop it but at this point senator barrasso is here and has some thoughts he wishes to express and so i will yield the floor to senator barrasso for his remarks madam president senator from wyoming's thank you madam president i come to join and add my voice to that of senator cruz the senator from texas about joe biden's surrender to vladimir putin you know energy is called the master resource for a reason powers our country powers our military powers this nation powers the economy and yet joe biden on his first day in office seemed to take us from a nation of energy dominance to energy dependence canceling the keystone xl pipeline and now approving this pipeline nordstream 2. and i come to add my voice to all of those and there are many who have spoken out against the president in expressing our deep concerns about this administration's unwillingness to fully sanction the north stream ii pipeline and to allow it to move ahead i'm sure pr so i'm sure senator cruz is part of his discussion this afternoon we'll talk about the confirmation hearing of tony blinken to be secretary of state and we asked him specifically about the pipeline and he said he would stop it no matter what even though it was down to the last i think he may have said hundred yards they would stop it that's not what happened we saw joe biden surrender for years we've been sounding the alarm about this russian trap this this pipeline who built it gas problem who are they they are the russian state-owned natural gas monopoly we've all quoted in the past heard senator mccain talk about russia's country acting as a gas station a gas station in the country i think one time he even went on to say that russia was a mafia run gas comping gas company disguised as a country the dangerous pipeline is going to double the amount of russian natural gas going to germany via the baltic sea completion of the north stream two pipeline is going to further titan's grip on european gas supplies and extend the threatening influence because as i said before energy is the master resource we know russia uses energy to coerce to manipulate they use it as a geopolitical weapon they coerce and manipulate our allies and our partners in europe many of our nato allies germany in particular are becoming dependent upon and addicted to russian gas europe already gets 40 to 45 percent of its gas imports from russia the new export pipeline helps russia undermine europe's efforts to diversify energy sources suppliers as well as the routes north stream 2 makes europe more energy dependent on russia and of course more prone to russian influence at the same time it's going to further fuel russian aggression russian intimidation and russian instability across europe putin is a powerful foe who aims to divide europe and to destroy the nato alliance he's been broadcasting those plans this is not a surprise the north stream 2 pipeline would mean a massive money transfer from our nato allies straight into the kremlin's coffers this means more resources to put towards russia's destabilizing activities and we continue to see an increase in these destabilizing activities russia occupies territory in ukraine georgia and maldova russia launched a military buildup on ukraine's border russia poisoned and then imprisoned a political opposition leader russian hackers are creating economic chaos by disrupting american supply chains russia could use these cash reserves in what way well a way to fund aggression in europe and around the world and it's interesting putin even funds environmental activists in europe to shut down energy where they would be exploring for natural gas and oil he wants environmental activists to protest any efforts for european countries to develop their own gas resources so he can hold them hostage in this way as well well president biden's weakness on putin's pipeline is going to have serious consequences not just the financial ones for russia not just those uh in europe but worldwide and for our security and for the security of our allies i believe we must stop this nordstream 2 pipeline that's why congress has overwhelmingly this body passed several pieces of bipartisan legislation you know people say to me can't you do anything in a bipartisan way in congress anymore and i'd say well we certainly did when it came to the nordstrom 2 pipeline we passed bipartisan legislation imposing sanctions on this very project yet this administration the biden administration the surrendering biden administration is unwilling to implement the laws that are on the books president biden waived congressionally mandated sanctions on nordstream to ag which is the company overseeing the pipeline construction by using a national interest waiver this administration gave russia the green light to speed ahead to completion this pipeline look there is there is strong opposition to president biden's deliberate failure to follow the law when it comes to this pipeline and the supply of energy from russia to europe on march 3rd of this year madam president i led a group of 40 senators in sending a letter outlining our concerns and i ask unanimous consent that this letter be part of the record without objection thank you madam president on this letter signed by 40 senators we called out the biden administration for refusing to impose sanctions on entities involved in the construction of this very pipeline it's a lengthy letter and i'm not going to read the whole thing but let me point out the letter says this the failure of this administration to identify and impose new sanctions signals its willingness to allow president putin to gain a stranglehold over europe's gas supply and increase its geopolitical leverage we called on the administration to correct its misguided actions by quickly and fully implementing the sanctions mandated by u s law it's been over six months and president biden still refuses to follow the law through his inaction president biden is gifting russia a new geopolitical weapon and one of the things i found most astonishing madam president in terms of this administration taking us from energy dependence to it from energy dominance to energy dependence is what happened just last month the biden administration seeing the impact of rising energy costs rising gasoline costs people in wyoming paying more than 25 dollars extra every time they fill their tank compared to the day that president biden came into office he said we need to do something his national security advisor actually went to say we need to ask opec plus to produce more oil to produce more energy who's opec plus well it's saudi arabia and it is russia in our energy committee in which i'm the ranking member senator murkowski the senator from alaska came to the committee and told members of the committee that currently the united states is using more energy produced from russia than it is from her home state of alaska what does that tell you about this administration and the commitment of this administration to energy needs in this country in our own country it is very disturbing madam president to see the president act in such a reckless way regarding our nation our economy our energy security and continuing to give gifts like this to our enemies it is much better to sell energy to our friends than have to buy energy from our enemies but that's what appeared on the white house website put there by the national security adviser to the president just last month saying asking saudi arabia and opec plus to produce more energy to help lower the cost at the pump for people in the united states here at home well why do you think we have it mr president you killed the keystone xl pipeline put a long-standing moratorium now on oil and gas production on federal lands which continues there still has not been a lease sale since the day you signed that executive order in the day you came into office we need to force the president to act on this critical issue of the north stream two pipeline yesterday just yesterday the u.s house of representatives the body down the down the hall with nancy pelosi as the speaker of the house the house of representatives passed an amendment to the national defense authorization act imposing new mandatory sanctions on nordstream 2. it would repeal the national interest waiver for sanctions under existing law look this is an incredibly important step and i would look forward to it quickly becoming law protecting this russian trap that they have laid for the germans and for europe the noose around the neck the north stream two pipeline it is in our national security interest to block that but yet this administration is not doing it and i believe it's a grave mistake on the part of this administration while president biden has failed to do the right thing there is still time the administration can reverse course and fully sanction the nordstream 2 pipeline and if president biden refuses congress is prepared to take strong actions to protect the energy security of our nation and our allies and with that madam president i thank senator cruz from allowing me to join in support of the comments that he's making we have been wonderful partners and other members on the floor in a bipartisan way with a specific focus on what is happening with russia and its efforts to undermine the united states to undermine nato and to try to go back to as they've said put the ban back together re-establish the former soviet union which vladimir putin has stated is his goal all along thank you madam president i yield the floor madam president senator from texas is recognized i thank the senator from wyoming for his powerful remarks and i thank each of the senators who have worked with me both republicans and democrats in our successful effort for over a year to stop the nordstrom 2 pipeline successful right until joe biden became president i want to talk now about the precise dangers that are posed by the completion of nordstrom 2. many agree it would be a catastrophe for the security of the united states and for our european allies nordstrom 2 but goes online would double the gas flowing from russia to germany while circumventing american allies that putin targets militarily diplomatically and commercially as a result if nordstrom 2 goes online it will expose ukraine and poland to deep long-term dangers and it will leave them vulnerable the next time russia targets them for aggression right now one third of russian gas exports to europe travel through ukraine that provides ukraine a curious kind of protection because putin knows that he can't endanger that energy infrastructure without endangering his economic line to the world with nordstrom 2 putin and russia are given by joe biden by kamala harris effectively open season on ukraine and when a year from now we see russian tanks in ukraine we will remember this moment that it was joe biden's surrender to putin on nordstream 2 that enabled russia to carry out that aggression if nordstrom 2 goes online it will enrich putin with billions of dollars to direct towards his malign activities and by the way if you don't want to take my word for it here's what the polish prime minister said about nordstrom 2 that nordstrom 2 quote strengthens russia's power helps president putin to build a military power and helps to intimidate other nations in addition if nordstrom 2 goes online it will solidify russian energy dominance at the expense of european energy diversification if nordstrom 2 goes online it will deepen the corruption that tragically is endemic across russia's energy sector and will it will export more of that corruption to europe but i want to talk a bit more about the crushing overarching danger of russia using nordstrom 2 for blackmail and for coercion putin uses energy as a weapon we've seen that pattern over and over again he uses energy for blackmail and coercion he turns it off or on to punish resistance to his expansionism this is a real acute and proven threat russia turned off the gas to europe in the winter months of 2006 and again in 2009 because of political disputes the kremlin company that owns and would run nordstrom 2 gas prom has repeatedly cut off gas to ukraine during political crises it's open blackmail and because of joe biden and kamala harris putin will have more power to blackmail our friends in europe and it is not only me it's not only republicans indeed it's not only republicans and democrats in congress who understand the magnitude of this threat our european allies understand fully just how disastrous nordstrom 2 would be ukrainian president zielinski has said that it is quote flat out wrong not to notice that nordstream 2 is a dangerous weapon not only for europe not only for ukraine but for the whole of europe i want you to pause and reflect president zielenski of ukraine said this pipeline is a dangerous weapon directed at ukraine and the whole of europe why is it being built because joe biden decided to give it as a gift of vladimir putin in a meeting with the biden administration the polish deputy foreign minister said and i quote poland considers this project to be detrimental to the security of not only ukraine not only central europe but also to the security of the whole of europe making the eu dependent on russian gas if we give a dam about our friends in poland if we give a damn about our friends in ukraine if we give a damn about our friends in europe don't allow joe biden to allow vladimir putin to point this weapon at the heart of europe in a joint statement signed by representatives of the foreign affairs committees of the parliaments of estonia latvia lithuania the czech republic ireland poland ukraine and the united kingdom here's what the estonian foreign affairs committee stated quote countering malign russian aggression is in the vital national security interest of the whole of nato the eu and our partners in central and eastern europe and that quote nordstream 2 is a geopolitical project geared towards expanding russia's influence on europe through energy dominance madam president a question for every member of this senate to decide do we care about endangering the national security about threatening about making our european friends subject to blackmail do we care about what estonia has told us about what latvia has told us about what lithuania has told us do we care about the czech republic do we care about ireland do we care about poland do we care about ukraine do we care about the united kingdom well our actions can decide that unfortunately joe biden and kamala harris have decided that our european allies their security is not of sufficient concern to them and instead they have actively given this pipeline to vladimir putin my democratic colleagues and indeed the vast majority of american lawmakers also understand the precise danger of blackmail and coercion posed by nordstrom 2. in 2018 senator coons my democratic colleague from delaware said quite plainly that quote we have to work with europe to reduce its dependence on russian energy exports and in particular to convince it to discontinue the nordstrom 2 pipeline from russia to germany senator coons continued quote as long as russia dominates the provision of energy to europe it will continue to hold a veto over many european policies and it will be in a position to weaken and marginalize countries like poland and ukraine and the president senator coons was right in 2018 and what he said is right today joe biden is committing a generational political blunder a catastrophic mistake that hurts american national security and that hurts european security congress repeatedly passed sanctions targeting nordstrom 2 targeting russia's corrupt energy market more broadly those sanctions especially katsa and pisa i'm going to discuss in greater detail later today the specific sanctions legislation that are on the u.s books that joe biden is ignoring that he is flouting that he is disregarding that he is refusing to enforce those sanctions impose mandatory sanctions this body congress as a whole democrats and republicans past administrations everyone has worked together not just to counter russia but specifically to prevent putin from being able to leverage energy as a geopolitical weapon the biden administration however tells us they have a better solution a better solution than both houses of congress a better solution than following u.s law instead of imposing sanctions to stop the pipeline they tell us they've worked out a deal with germany that they promise will prevent putin from being able to use energy as a weapon it's the best of both worlds they say they don't have to use sanctions and they still solve the problem of russian energy blackmail president biden said quote chancellor merkel and i are absolutely united in our conviction that russia must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon to coerce or threaten its neighbors those are nice sediments if they weren't accompanied with joe biden giving a multi-billion dollar generational gift to putin to do exactly what president biden just said he didn't want putin to do here's how an official from the biden state department described the quote deal quote there's a clear commitment on the part of the united states and germany in this statement that should russia attempt to use energy as a weapon and as an aside they've done so over and over and over and over again in the past should russia attempt to use energy as a weapon germany will take action at the national level and press for effective measures at the european net level including sanctions to limit russian export capabilities to europe in the energy sector and that includes gas and or other economically relevant sectors okay so madam president understand what they're saying if and when russia does what they've done in the past over and over again if they do one of the reasons they want nordstrom 2 is to exercise economic blackmail if and when they do that germany's going to send a really stern letter to the european union one of my favorite movies that heidi and i have watched many times is a movie called team america it's a comedy it's done by the creators of the movie south park it's a movie that involves puppets uh i will give a warning it is a movie with an enormous amount of profanity in it it is also one of the most side-splittingly funny movies ever made in team of america they talk about hans blicks and the tool of sending a stern letter to the united nations and the movie team america like understandably ridicules that as being utterly ineffective in the case of that movie it was north korea but in the case of putin i assure you vladimir putin has not lost one minute sleep worrying about germany's letter to the european union once nordstream 2 goes online it will become a dominant source of energy for europe putin knows this merkel knows this biden knows this turning off nordstrom 2 which germany has suggested oh once we're addicted to the crack we'll just turn it off but we don't want it anymore that would be suicidal which putin knows and he's counting on it is as empty and hollow a threat has ever been uttered on the international stage and even worse we already know that it's a hollow threat because putin has already in just the last few days crossed the line into using energy as a weapon so we don't have to go back to 2006 we don't have to go back to 2009. let's go back to last week in just the last week it has become clear that putin has been turning down gas exports to europe to coerce our allies into dropping opposition to nordstrom 2. the black male is open and it is brazen russian and gas prom officials have said if germany and the eu approve nordstrom 2 coming online then the russians will turn exports back up on friday more than 40 members of the european parliament called for an investigation of the coercion saying gazprom was driving up prices to quote pressure the european union into speeding nordstrom 2 activation so i want you to pause and reflect the biden administration's claim to prevent nordstrom 2 being used as a weapon for energy blackmail is if russia ever does it germany will stand up to them russia is doing it right now not in 2006 well yes they did in 2006 not in 2009 well yes they did in 2009 today last week and they're not hiding it they're saying we're going to cut off your energy until you approve nordstrom 2. how exactly is the biden administration claiming they're going to prevent the malign use of this pipeline they are literally surrendering to blackmail right now for no reason and you know sadly the reason for the past nine months i've had conversations with just about every senior biden state department nominee in my office over and over and over again about nordstrom 2. almost to a person the nominees agree nordstream 2 would be terrible it would be disastrous it would be bad for america it would be bad for europe it would be good for russia they all agree that by the way tony blink of the secretary of state said so vociferously in his confirmation hearing and he said so even more vociferously sitting on the couch in my office they all admit this so why then would biden have committed this disastrous mistake sadly i think there are two reasons one the biden team entered office with an almost pathological revulsion in anything the previous administration did if the trump administration did it it must be wrong and must be reversed now listen madam president none of us in this chamber are naive we understand politics we understand that when one party takes over from the other party they often reverse policy decisions that's not unusual obama reversed decisions of the bush administration trump reverse decisions of the obama administrations and there are a whole lot of decisions of the trump administration that sadly from my perspective biden is reversing as a general matter that's why we have elections and there are differences between the policy positions between the two parties but the biden team is further than that it is almost a pathological if trump did it it must be bad never mind that the trump administration did this only after the congress came together in an extraordinary moment of bipartisan unity and passed this as mandatory legislation in my office over and over again with just about every senior biden state department nominee i asked them please don't turn one of the biggest foreign policy victories of the last several years into one of the biggest foreign policy defeats of the last several years the reports came out actually that state tried to honor its commitment that state the department of state in the interagency process argued for let's follow the law let's impose the sanctions and what the public reports have suggested is the biden white house the political operatives in the biden white house overruled state so even though state knew the right policy was shut down the putin pipeline and the wrong policy was turn it into the biden putin pipeline the biden white house desperately wanted to stamp their imprimatur on this because if it was done under president trump they were going to reverse it the second reason is the biden foreign policy team for whatever reason has a deep and abiding interest in giving to germany whatever it is they want now look germany is an important friend and ally we work together closely with germany on economic matters on diplomatic matters we have long and positive relationships with our friend and ally germany that doesn't mean we agree with everything the germans do any more than we agree with everything any other ally of ours does indeed i will point out in the past week the biden administration precipitated the french withdrawing their ambassador from america an extraordinary moment which i will point out at least illustrates that we have a history having disagreements and sometimes serious disagreements with our friends and allies but one friend of mine has a phrase he puts it that the biden foreign policy establishment they sleep with votive candles of angela merkel under their beds that they view chancellor merkel as someone who must be surrendered to acquiesce to no matter what never mind that chancellor merkel has an extremely limited tenure in office she is on her way out never mind that the next successor government in germany may well decide that they don't even want nordstrom 2. this biden foreign policy team perhaps is a farewell gift to angela merkel have decided that president biden should surrender to putin that makes no sense that is dangerous it's harmful to europe it's harmful to germany it's harmful to america and it helps russia we're going to have an extended period of time to continue to discuss these matters but at this point i see that senator shaheen is preparing to speak so i yield the floor to senator sheen the senator from new hampshire

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Published: Thu Sep 23 2021