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You cannot govern without having your team in place.

China is aggressively all over the hemisphere.

We simply cannot afford to let the Chinese Communist Party expand its influence and absorb Latin America and the Caribbean into its private political economic bloc.

Beijing sees this and they are seizing the opportunity to grow both their influence and their power in the Western Hemisphere.

The Western Hemisphere is in a period of extraordinary upheaval.

Imagine that. Mind boggling. Our directors there, basically, allowed it to happen.

Without urgent action, this economic downturn could last for a decade.

I introduced the Western Hemisphere Security Strategy Act with Chairman Menendez. It is the beginning of doing just that.

The Chinese Communist Party is actively exporting its governance model across the hemisphere.

The Communist Party of China is taking advantage of its economic importance and political relationships to encourage governments across the region to make domestic and foreign policy decisions that favor the CCP.

It just seems to me that we do not have a strategic comprehensive plan.

I believe that Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, including its indefensible tactics and war crimes, creates an opportunity for the United States to remind the world that democracy, human rights, and legal commitments must mean something.

The war unleashed by Vladimir Putin's ambitions in the Ukraine lays bare the implications of the PRC attempt to assert moral neutrality.

Thankfully, there is new leadership there that is moving in a different direction.

I completely agree that we need ambassadors in these countries.

I mean, it was stuff that I was embarrassed and ashamed that we were using taxpayers' money to tell the rest of the world about what an awful place America was.

I have heard some of those things Voice of America puts out, and I have complained about it and I am told to mind my own business.

Supporting democracy around the world creates a comparative foreign policy advantage for the United States.