This package is but a part of our overall regional security strategy. Our strategy seeks to enhance the capacity of friendly states to defend themselves and to improve our own ability to project our own forces into the region should deterrence fail. We'll continue to pursue efforts in both areas. Our support for the security of Israel is, of course, undiminished by today's vote. The United States will maintain its unshakeable commitment to the security and welfare of the State of Israel, recognizing that a strong Israel is essential to our basic goals in that area.
Much work still remains ahead.
Because of actions like today's by the Senate, the cause of peace is again on the march in the Middle East. For this, all of us can be grateful. When they came in and handed me the votes. And that would have been a victory, because it required a majority vote to stop this. Yes, I do.