The proposed bipartisan bill, introduced by Senator Coons and Senator Graham, offers all three.

We must increase our investments in our diplomatic and development tools if we want to strengthen our national security.

We can do much better than this.

I think most importantly you make a compelling case for the urgent national security-based need to invest more robustly in our diplomacy and development.

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

Our State Department is vital to our national security. It makes Americans more secure and advances a more prosperous and stable world.

I will defer to Senator Graham.

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

I am eager to work with you, if I possibly can, to support finding a path forward as we anticipate the end of Title 42, in the middle of May.

I believe there is much more good news about our partnership, and its potential, in terms of border crossings and security, fentanyl interdiction, economic development, and some of the ways that our economies, and our values, and…

I appreciate your continued work to implement the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is benefiting the State of every Senator.

including supporting Ukraine's determined fight against Russian aggression, countering the threats posed by China.

I am encouraged by the fiscal year 2024 budget request for your Agency, and the rest of the State and Foreign Operations budget, as the challenges of our time demand bold investments.

I couldn't agree more that that is one of the core arguments for robustly resourcing the State Department and the USAID, is to make sure we are meeting this moment.

We need to see that, but we also want to see steps taken to put Tunisia fully back on the democratic path it was on.

We are in the middle of a global food crisis, according to the World Food Programme: pre-pandemic, there were 135 million people in more than 50 countries who were facing hunger.

I think it is essential that, in the long run, conservation, the protection of biodiversity, wildlife, be seen as a central part of competent development strategies, by nations all over the world, if that ultimately, not in competition…

I was surprised to see a proposal to cut their budget by 40 percent.