dr. farkas: ambassador? >> our report, it is one of the recommendations, that we be tough-minded about maintaining the sanctions on the russian federation. obviously, chancellor merkel and others may be correct decision when putin went into ukraine and not to fight. they are not a member. we had no article five with them, and we do not want a war. that sanctions was the response, and now we see at least three european union are -- leaders imply or state that they think it is time to end the sanctions before putin has met any of the sanctions. it would be giving a victory to putin and leaving him towards territorial aggrandizement, and i am quite confident the obama administration is going to hold the line on this, and from what i heard in germany last week, chancellor merkel is going to roll that, but everyone has to agree to pitch the sanctions forward to continue them, so it is going to be a real battle forward, and smacked in the middle of our presidential transition, and as private citizens, we advised s

dr. farkas: i agree 100%. it has been my feeling for a while having worked in bosnia after the war and studied and written about it. and of course, you are both actively engaged in diplomacy and in your military careers at the time, so you know what it looked like in 1994-95. i think we are exactly there with syria. even if you don't know how you will resolve the conflict, you still have a responsibility to do something to alleviate the suffering. we did have a safe zones which did not work. i should not say they did not work. they did not work in every case. been incredibly informative, dynamic i think. i don't know whether it is spicy yet. you have a chance to make it more interesting. i think there are probably people out there with microphones. i will call on folks. i will try to be democratic. i will take right here from the front. get ready on that side of the room. >> jim cunningham, atlantic council. thank you for the report and recommendations. in order to try to be a little bit provocative, given the

dr. farkas: thank you for being here today.ed to be here with these gentlemen to discuss the report. i think it is quite timely. i'm hoping we can transform the discussion and make the discussion about nato and institutions more sizzling and perhaps we can make these the spike boys of internationalism. we are going to try to make this more interesting. if bernie sanders can do it, you can do it. let's make it more conventional and approachable. i think it is important to spring forward a little bit and use some of the work damon discussed about values and defending our way of life. while this report looks like a dry, usual, pre-summit report on both of -- on nato -- you have read a lot of these reports. but the reality is i think what have not convey when we these conversations is is really about our values. these groups? it is also about spreading democracy, strengthening democracy, protecting our economic freedom of navigation, freedom of commerce. these are not to be taken for granted. without strong alliances, without the m

dr. evelyn farkas testified that the defense department should no longer do any business with russia. she concluded we must work with germany and other allies to meet the natural gas demand that gives them leverage against moscow, not the other way around, and benefits u.s. companies and alternative suppliers. well, those who have environmental concerns need to recognize that even greenpeace evaluated the facilities of kaiserslautern in 2013. they set a goal for the reduction of co--2 emissions by 2020 -- co-2 emissions by 2020 by a had a% reduction that was achieved by 2014. mr. speaker, i agree with my colleagues that we need to do everything in our power to increase efficiency. the reality is if we do not resource energy to our troops it will be left in the hands of russia. i ask my colleagues to take into consideration what's at stake and reject the huffman amendment. failure to address these concerns could leave our service men and women serving overseas could leave them a cold war. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves the balance