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Our hearts break. I know all our hearts break for the family of Miss Riley.

To fund us insufficiently is really going to handicap our ability to realize the full benefits of this transformative legislation.

But I do believe that Senator Murkowski is correct that we need to fund the Coast Guard at a greater level than, historically, has been the case.

Chair Murray, I remember very well when you and I visited a Coast Guard facility in your jurisdiction when I served as a Deputy Secretary.

I would welcome the opportunity to work with you to increase the Coast Guard's budget quite significantly.

The Bipartisan Border Bill would have been transformative in advancing the security of our border.

The safety and security of the American people is our highest priority.

I believe very strongly that the United States Coast Guard belongs in the Department of Homeland Security.

Chair Gensler said there were many more disclosure rules coming down the line.

Ukraine has done a commendable job in terms of protecting its sovereign territory.

This is about the rules-based international order.

The world of chaos and conquest that Putin seeks--one in which autocrats think they can rewrite borders by force--would leave the United States far less secure.

Passing this supplemental is absolutely critical, and our request is that we pass it as quickly as possible.

We want to see, at the end of the day, a Ukraine that is a democratic, independent, and sovereign state.

Delaying the supplemental sends a terrible signal to our allies and partners.

One major provision of the Senate bipartisan legislation, that would have been so incredibly impactful, was to allow us to apply expedited removal proceedings.

The bipartisan bill that a group of senators worked on... would have delivered a consequence regime like no other

The threat that we face today was clearly not a threat that we were facing 10 years ago, and it won't be the same 10 years from now.