Your budget request for $1.2 billion for investments in modernizing ports of entry, more security and technology, will this amount of money improve our ability to counter fentanyl and other illicit drugs coming through our ports?

We are a State of neighbors, a State that cares about solving problems and doing the right thing.

I can`t guarantee this, but I think it`s more likely we`re going to end up -- well, if we end up in a war, a real shooting war with a major power, it`s going to be a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence. Look, what Russia is…

If you're not vaccinating, you're not nearly as smart as I thought you were.

That`s under consideration right now. But if you`re not vaccinating, you`re not nearly as smart as I thought you were.

it is important for us to be able to be at the table with the full weight of United States from a diplomatic perspective backing us

Thank you for setting the record straight about both the bipartisan support for the Abraham Accords here and the ways in which the State Department continues to advocate for their full implementation.

It is in the shared interest of the United States and Canada to revitalize and expand our historic alliance and steadfast friendship to overcome the daunting challenges of today and realize the full potential of the relationship into the…

If you would just share with me, briefly, what lessons from your service as ambassador to Croatia would you bring to PRM...

If we really believe in the importance of NATO, if we really believe in the importance of NORAD, we have to invest appropriately.

I think that is urgent work and I look forward to working with the chairman to ensure that the resources for that are available.

we need to continue to reinforce that America sends its best and brightest to represent us around the world.

I look forward to partnering with you and figuring out how we can more fully implement them.

I am pleased to strongly support his nomination, and I urge the committee to do so as well.

I believe trade policy is one of the best tools to protect our environment and work with our allies on shared environmental goals.

We are in competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century. We have to do more than just build back better . . . We have to compete more strenuously.

In order to curb the influx of migration we see every year at our southwestern border, do you believe that we need to address the root cause of migration from countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador?

corruption attacks the foundations of democratic institutions, drives and intensifies extremism, and makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to corrode democratic governance.