The Federal student loan debt is over $1.6 trillion, and it only seems like the cost of the degrees have increased.

What does he base his constant statements on about that Ukraine is a part of Russia?

When the Honduran people elected President Castro in 2022, they did so with the hope that her Administration would be a change from the status quo.

I have consistently fought to include funding in our congressional appropriations for this commission and am glad that the United Nations has also been very supportive.

Conflating religious authority with political authority is idolatrous and often leads to the oppression of minority and other marginalized groups as well as the spiritual impoverishment of religion.

What I am wanting you to help me fix that in my mind is the difference--because of what is going on right now--and with Hamas. What is the difference between a political prisoner and a hostage?

Mandela would have been a political prisoner?

Too often, families of hostages, prisoners, even senior congressional leaders cannot get answers from the State Department.

I commend you on your courage in speaking out despite the threats to your safety and the danger to you.

The horrific atrocities happening right now in Israel by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists are heartbreaking.

The murderous Hamas puppets of Iran have unleashed unimaginable horror upon innocent Israeli infants, children, women, elderly, and all others.

I appreciate the opportunity to present written testimony on the Department of Interior's fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations for the National Park Service and its historic preservation programs.

I appreciate the opportunity to present written testimony on the Department of Interior's fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations for the National Park Service and its historic preservation programs.

This administration must recognize that Iran will not negotiate in good faith, bears responsibility for strengthening terrorist proxies around the world, and is still a state sponsor of terrorism.

all of these programs being able to change the trajectory of someone's life, it changes not only that individual, but it changes their family, it changes their community, which means it changes our country.

I think we need to not reinvent the wheel and just move forward.

This will not stand. We need to have robust strategies and responses.

I worry when arbitrary designations are leveled across the country viewing one state at a time monolithically.