Mr. Speaker, this week recognizes National Police Week. I would like to especially highlight the small but significant things officers do for our communities. Police officers in Clearwater, Florida, surprised a 10-year-old robbery victim…

Thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this important hearing.

Thank you very much for this, to the Ranking Member and to all the Members of the Committee.

I will watch it on TV.

Mr. President, I have come to the floor today as part of my office's Expression NOT Oppression initiative, which highlights human rights abuses around the world and the plight of individuals imprisoned or oppressed for simply exercising…

I think they are playing it smart.

That stamp around the world stands for the highest quality product that you can get, and it is so important that we protect it.

I look forward to helping you achieve your goal of making a realignment of the USDA to make it the most efficient agency in government.

I think the free trade agreement--because we want them to know that we are back, that we are here, that we are going to be strong allies.

I think the biggest difference and, yes, there are some other disputes there.

I think what we see with that, we can't be first if we don't help our neighbors and our partners.

I am happy to say we have done letters of strong free trade agreements already with Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam.

Our goal is to have balanced trade as important as it is free trade agreements.

They are weaponizing those islands.

I think we are way off course, and we really need to focus.

If you cut that foreign aid, we are going to have to spend that in ammunition, and I know we don't want that.

If you are not sitting with them and talking about these problems, you are not going to address them.

If we can repeat that model over and over again, I feel us building stronger, a stronger alliance and unity in that area to stave off China.