We desperately need the Federal Government to step in and help residents, families, and local governments mitigate the problem before more disasters occur.

Overall, nationwide, our bipartisan infrastructure bill will make a $55 billion investment in clean drinking water and clean water.

Thank you, Chairwoman Napolitano (and Chairman DeFazio), for the opportunity to testify today and for your strong leadership throughout the WRDA process.

We are in the middle of a major climate crisis, as we all know.

Yes. If confirmed, I will do everything possible to ensure that employees who report a possible AHI receive immediate and appropriate attention and care.

It is concerning to see several OAS member states resume diplomatic contacts with the Maduro regime.

I support the U.S. policy that our embassy will remain in Jerusalem.

I support the U.S. policy that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

I will support, and strongly advocate for Interim President Guaid's representative in the OAS and free and fair elections and restored democracy in Venezuela.

I share your concern over the human rights abuses and lack of democracy in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

As Ambassador, if confirmed, I will continue to support Cubans' aspirations for freedom and for greater economic opportunities.

We have three now dictatorships in the Western Hemisphere where we only had one in Cuba.

The U.S.-Australia relationship has served as an anchor of peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.

The October 2021 military coup in Sudan constituted a major setback for the hopes and aspirations of the Sudanese people and U.S. interests in the region.

If confirmed, I look forward to working with the new democratically elected Government in the Philippines.

Everybody in this body should know that when you perpetuate such racist tropes, you contribute to a culture that gives people permission to treat Black Americans as suspicious and their lives as expendable.

I will use the tools and support available to me through the U.S. Government to highlight the dangers posed by the Maduro regime.

the partisan polarization around Israel in the United States is, in my view, deleterious to the health of the U.S.-Israel relationship.