{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/panel-at-reagan-national-defense-forum-highlights-americas-role-as-arsenal-of-democracy", "Panel at Reagan National Defense Forum Highlights America\u2019s Role as Arsenal of Democracy", "2024-12-07", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "Kevin Cramer", "C001096", "www.cramer.senate.gov", "cramer", "https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "***Click here for media resources.***\n\nSIMI VALLEY, C.A. \u2013 The Reagan National Defense Forum brings together leaders in the political and defense communities each year to discuss policies strengthening the defense of the United States. The theme of this year\u2019s forum is \u201cPeace Through Strength in a Time of Transition\u201d and includes panels featuring members of Congress, administration officials, and senior military leadership, in addition to defense industry and technology executives.\n\nDuring this year\u2019s forum, U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and co-chair of the Senate Defense Modernization Caucus, participated in a panel entitled, \u201cA Secure and Free Europe: NATO, Ukraine, and the Arsenal of Democracy.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m not surprised a majority of Americans overall support Ukraine entering some sort of negotiation, even if it means giving up some territory,\u201d said Cramer. \u201cYou asked if my party is united, and I think it\u2019s pretty clear that we have a wide-range of views on the war in Ukraine, and more importantly on America\u2019s continued support. [\u2026] I do go back to the Cold War lessons, but we should have learned lessons since then about how the fight generally comes to us if we\u2019re not presenting a posture of strength that threatens the ability to go to them if they come to us.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch the full panel\n\nThe discussion, moderated by Karen DeYoung with The Washington Post, also featured Co-Founder and CEO of Anduril Industries Brian Schimpf, Sweden's Minister for Defense P\u00e5l Jonson, former Secretary of the U.S. Army Ryan McCarthy, and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).\n\nFollowing the 2024 elections, priorities and leadership are shifting. The expected changes have led to questions regarding American global leadership, the role of NATO, and peace and stability in Europe nearly three years after Russia attacked Ukraine.\n\nThe conversation centered around these transitions and how the United States can boost its capacity to serve as the arsenal of democracy. During a radio broadcast in 1940, in the midst of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the term \u201carsenal of democracy\u201d to signal the then-neutral United States would use all of its \u201cimmense industrial capacity to build the weapons of war needed by the last struggling democracies to save themselves, and the idea of democracy itself, from the threat of conquest by fascism and militarism in Europe and Asia.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/panel-at-reagan-national-defense-forum-highlights-americas-role-as-arsenal-of-democracy"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7696021348237991, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}