"As Members of the Homeland Security Committee, we have a duty to protect the United States homeland and the people who live here from all threats, foreign and domestic."
"I think there's an enormous opportunity here."
"You're providing them better health care."
"Thank you, Chairman Wilson, and thank you to you and Ranking Member Phillips for calling this important hearing."
"Senator Whitehouse's proposal and his sponsored legislation shows one promising path forward."
"It is vital that terrorist organizations like AQ and ISIS, which have been diminished due to the sacrifice of American service members, our NATO allies, and other partners, never regain the capability..."
"One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals."
"the humanitarian toll has been catastrophic as hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions more have become refugees"
"the 2023 humanitarian response plan for Syria is only funded at 6 percent"
"So, when it comes to right whale deaths, we must focus on the real problem, based on the data and not based on conspiracies spread by the fossil fuel industry and its allies."
"the world has really witnessed for the last 12 years the horrors carried out by the Assad regime against the Syrian people"
"the United States is the largest humanitarian donor, allocating more than $15.8 billion since Fiscal Year 2012"
"I think that the earthquake and the Russians' manipulation of the UNSC authorizations of U.N. agencies tells us that the United States and other major donors and Turkiye need to explore large-scale na..."
"We passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act last Congress, a bill I worked on with Senators Grassley and Durbin and Leahy and Congresswoman Spartz here in the House, to make sure that we had a..."
"Our ports are the backbone to our economy. Any way to grow our shipping capacity and ensure our supply chain is strong is a smart and important investment in our economy."
"accountability does not begin in January 2021. There is a larger story here that if we are going to draw lessons for the future and how to do better, we have to be mindful of."
"We also need to make sure that, as we discussed in our previous round of questioning, we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan."
"Letting billionaires pay low or zero tax rates costs America $550 billion."
