Speeches

Senator Mitt Romney delivers remarks on increasing Chinese aggression and the need for international partnerships to pressure the regime to play by the global rules at the International Democrat Union (IDU) Forum. These remarks appear as delivered.

These two problems have been spoken about for, I think, virtually decades here in this chamber and across the political spectrum. One relates to preserving our extraordinary entitlement programs: Social Security, Medicare, our Highway Trust Fund, and the like. These programs are very much under threat because within 13 years, each of these trust funds, each of these programs, will face insolvency. 

In a speech on the Senate floor, Senator Mitt Romney, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, spoke on the Administration’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria and the temporary ceasefire with Turkey.

Senator Romney urges his colleagues to support his amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), reaffirming the authority of the United States to defend itself and protect U.S. citizens.

During his maiden speech on the floor of the United States Senate, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney addressed the need for a strategy to confront the challenges China poses to the United States.