I want to thank you and the Ranking Member of this committee for holding a full committee hearing on this remarkable, grave, global crisis in food security.

I frankly think we should focus on this like it is the Berlin Airlift...

Russia's responsibility for this food crisis because of its aggression in Ukraine.

If the Chinese keep piling on the debt and we do not fund the Development Finance Corporation as our alternative that is more transparent and more sustainable, we will continue to go in the wrong direction in the developing world.

It is striking to me that at exactly this moment, when we have a bitter cocktail coming together of a conflict and COVID and climate that the United States is stepping up in a massive way.

The whole world community recognizes the urgent need for the World Food Programme.

today, I rise in support of the nomination of Rita Landgraf for the position of Assistant Secretary for Aging and Administrator of the Administration for Community Living at the Department of Health and Human Services. I have been…

if I could speak momentarily, I had an opportunity to speak briefly with our colleague from Tennessee with respect to his concerns and the reasons that led him to object to what I think--and he may agree--is actually quite an excellent…

I appreciate the bipartisan effort and really the level of knowledge shown as it was put together.

What gives you joy in your work? You know what most people say? Helping people.

I firmly believe this office is the right office to address this threat within DHS, and really, some of our efforts across the government.

The United States is going to remain an active, engaged partner in the Middle East. As the world grows more competitive and the challenges we face more complex, it`s only becoming clear to me how closely interwoven America`s interests are…

I`m taking inflation very seriously and it`s my top for domestic priority.

We`ve gone from an economy that was shut down to an economy that is leading the world and economic growth.

He basically said that he was not personally responsible for it. I indicated that he probably was.

With respect to the murder of Khashoggi, I raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what I thought of it at the time, and what I think of it now.

some people have found themselves wondering if maybe giving the job of attorney general as a kind of consolation prize to Merrick Garland wasn`t the best move when what the country needed was an A.G. ready and willing and able to prosecute…

He basically said that he -- he was not personally responsible for it. I indicated I thought he was.