Thank you for the opportunity to work together for another Congress and to do more for our small businesses nationwide.

I want to make sure that we stay engaged in this as a Congress.

One of the things we could do to help with public diplomacy is confirm Elizabeth Allen to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy.

Vladimir Putin continues his barbaric assault on Ukraine.

I couldn't agree with you more. That the core challenges today, the vast majority of the population looks at a chicken, and says: I see value, I can sell eggs, I can eat the chicken, I can sell the chicken.

Maintain the viability of the two-state solution.

One of the areas I think we could come together is around reforestation and conservation.

I am glad that you have prioritized it in your opening statement. We have some real work to do here to make sure that it remains authorized and robustly funded.

And thank you, Senator Boozman, thank you for your great partnership, and development work in Africa, and around the world, over now so many years together.

Let me ask one brief follow-up question, then I am going to defer to my Ranking Member.

I will be interested to have you keep me and others on the subcommittee up to date about that work in terms of the syndication.

I look forward to staying in touch with you about that, because anyone who has supervised a large portfolio project knows there is always a tail, there is always a few that go sideways.

The consequences of that I think would be grave.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the DFC next year, I am interested in how you monitor that.

we cannot be a player on the world stage and keep our country safe and prosperous if we put ourselves on the sidelines.

I am very fortunate to have Senator Graham as the Ranking Member on this subcommittee.

I look forward to fighting for the Home Allocation.