I associate myself with all the words that were spoken on both sides of the aisle tonight. I am sure you do, too. The main job in front of us is to protect our police officers, and I think that we can resolve differences along those lines…

Inside Russia, Kremlin cronies kidnap Americans, from basketball stars to Wall Street Journal reporters, to use as bargaining chips in their geopolitical gains.

I thank Mr. Pascrell for his leadership in the caucus, supporting law enforcement, and always being there for those in New Jersey. I am very grateful. Madam Speaker, I thank Mr. Rutherford for organizing this evening and for all he does…

The last time U.S.-Russia relations were this bad, Kennedy was President and Khrushchev had nuclear missiles pointed at us from Cuba.

We need to continue our coordinated global efforts to target Putin's war machine because beyond Ukraine and with support of the Wagner Group, Putin continues to be a destructive autocratic force on the world stage.

It is a huge mistake. It is a diplomatic mistake.

Secretary Blinken testified in this committee on the record that he had asked the Arab League nations not to recognize Assad.

I was grateful to the United Kingdom and the United States for imposing Caesar sanctions.

He is a drug kingpin.

there's no way to put this genie in the bottle. Globally, it's exploding.

I'm really worried about that.

I really want to just explore what happens when these companies that are already controlling so much of our lives.

this idea that this equally transforming technology is coming, and for Congress to do nothing--which is not what anybody here is calling for, little or nothing--is obviously unacceptable.

I'm excited about what the future holds.

The only way we're going to see the democratization of values, I think... is if we create rules of the road that enforce certain safety measures.

There is a real risk of a kind of technocracy combined with oligarchy.

you would encourage Congress and my colleague, Senator Welch, to move forward in trying to figure out the right tailored agency to deal with what we know and perhaps things that might come up in the future?

Not doing so for social media has been, I think, very destructive and allowed a lot of things to go on that are really causing a lot of harm.