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I would strenuously urge that you personally take a look at that and see if you cannot move that on
This is not a partisan issue by any stretch of the imagination. This is a bipartisan issue
If we want to exercise full oversight of the State Department, which is the charge of this committee, we must regularly and consistently authorize the State Department.
If this gets in the hands of the Taliban, I have got serious reservations whether it is going to go to taking care of women and girls to go to school and that sort of thing.
Getting the State Department to do the basics--provide witnesses for hearings, feedback on legislation, and updates before issues hit the news--is extremely difficult without authorizing bills.
After the fall of Kabul, the U.S. Embassy informed stakeholders that all pending visas, passports, and documentation for consular services had been destroyed.
I want to applaud the FSA for announcing the reinstatement of its enforcement unit on October 8 to strengthen oversight of predatory institutions.
If the Department of Justice is looking for congressional direction on how they should be using their taxpayer-funded resources, they should start by investigating and prosecuting the human trafficking cartels.
Parents are in charge of their child's education, period--not the experts from the left-wing organizations, not the teachers' unions, and not the Biden Administration--parents.
I am gravely concerned about Attorney General Merrick Garland's recent memo to the FBI directing them to intimidate and harass parents who show up at school board meetings.
While some of my colleagues on this committee today may say that West Virginia is irrelevant--bless your heart--I would like you to note that our small but mighty state is the fifth largest energy producer.
I applaud my colleague, Senator Manchin, from my home state of West Virginia, for seeing through what the CEPP pretends to offer.
If you are not the subject of an executive privilege assertion by the sitting president of the United States... you are not immune from prosecution.
These witnesses are acting with impunity because for years they got away with it with no consequences.
I would work tirelessly to restore U.S. leadership on the Council in order to defend Israel and diminish the Council's anti-Israel bias.
The United States is committed to seeking reforms of the U.N. Human Rights Council, particularly with respect to the Council's disproportionate focus on Israel.