President Trump, who has literally spent most of his life involved in pay-to-play scandals.

We need to tighten up the ethics rules with respect to interaction with previous employers.

one of the ways in which we tried to restore trust in American institutions was by creating independent investigative bodies that would look at ethics violations

So, if we want to talk about influence peddling and criminal behavior, let's talk about the former President...

Actually, there were multiple criminal referrals during the Trump administration.

I hope we can get back to working for the American people.

Well, these hearings are always a very interesting fever dream, but I am hoping that we can bring it to a conclusion soon.

Today, after months of delay that cost the loss of the Ukrainian military advantage, that cost children's lives and access to food and aid, that allowed China to threaten the Indo-Pacific, Congress will finally vote. Congress is finally…

I don't know what kind of minerals were there. I don't think they were critical minerals.

This week we are closing out Black Maternal Health Week, focused on bringing attention, awareness, and, most importantly, action to improving maternal health for Black mothers. Across the United States, Black mothers are three times more…

We have Members... that are repeating Russian and Chinese disinformation that has been planted in the U.S. media.

The threat is real. Our allies... are afraid of the Chinese Government and the economic and military threat that they pose to their democracies.

The Chinese are watching what we do right now, and our first and best defense is to support our allies.

America needs to wake up, because if we do not take action in this chamber, the threats to global and domestic security will have significant and devastating impacts for the United States.

In the article, the U.S. Central Command head, General Michael Kurilla, says: ``I am very concerned about this renewed relationship between Russia, China, and Iran. What we are seeing is Iran is reliant on China and Russia is reliant on…

I thank the ranking member for pointing out the importance of the moment we are in and the fact that there are people dying. There are children dying of hunger. How is it that we do not cry for that, and that we do not cry for solutions…

If we do not support our allies in Europe and in the Pacific, we could be on the verge of a major war in which American service members would be deployed.

I like the fact that the answers have actually told us that the people in the territories... are asking for this and you are responding to that.