how does the U.S. expect to maintain its long-standing leadership role in addressing global health challenges with these steep cuts?

This committee consistently provides bipartisan support to maintain United States global leadership.

Any unexpected break in inspections designed to prevent contamination is simply unacceptable.

So this administration has put, of course, additional resources which we are pleased about--into the domestic HIV epidemic, but you are stepping back now from our leadership on the global side.

Among the many effects of the 35-day government shutdown was a sharp reduction in FDA inspections of the Nation's food supply.

I am hopeful it will happen soon, but I am extremely frustrated

I do agree with Ranking Member Fortenberry. This is a time where Congress has demonstrated its ability to put partisanship aside.

At the request of Interim President Juan Guaido, we have been prepositioning humanitarian assistance close to the border for eventual delivery into Venezuela.

As President Trump recently said in Miami, we can see the day ahead when all the people of Latin America will at last be free.

The people of Venezuela, like those in Cuba and Nicaragua, who are also suffering under authoritarianism, deserve freedom and a return to the rule of law.

the inconsistency, however, of this administration's policies on such an important issue is baffling.

In my judgment, this is a decision that doesn't make any sense. It reverses more than 2 decades of bipartisan support for humanitarian, economic, and security assistance.

One of the things that really saddened me and worried me is the message that we are sending or the administration is sending to our friends and allies.

I have never heard it so quiet at the start, so I think that is a tribute to you.

In the meantime there is suffering, and for those of us who still have dreams of a two-state solution one day--and I have been in Congress for a long time, but it seems that cutting off all aid takes us backwards and doesn't move forward…

I am still hoping, and I have been working for that for a very long time--a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

I am telling you, your administration is abortion-obsessed.

Disinformation, as one tool of Russia's political warfare, is certainly not new.