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I am very pleased to see such a qualified panel of nominees before us today.

As you know, Somalia is wracked by a political crisis over the September 17th agreement.

We have shared values, and we need to point out to the peoples of the region the shared values that we have, and the difference between what we consider important and what the real costs of the engagement that the malign actors from…

I think sometimes their offer of assistance to a contrary is seen as a first step in where, later on, they will start asking for small favors and then move into more demands.

Algeria has supported the political process led by the U.N. and by the U.N. Secretary General's personal envoy for Western Sahara.

If we keep up business as usual we will give China a free pass to use that leverage to export its model of authoritarianism.

I am concerned about, I guess, the ongoing and, in some cases, increasing Chinese and Russian engagement in the Western Hemisphere.

Republicans traditionally have believed that we ought to reduce spending; that we need to reform entitlement programs.

The massive amount of debt that we continue to rack up as a Nation.

I think the Washington Post editorial board, in most cases, has been very sympathetic to the argument of the Senator from Vermont.

Well, very simply, what you are suggesting--what you are saying here is that the owner of the Washington Post, who said this is really bad policy and shouldn't be done in this way at the end of this year--is that what you are saying? That…

I have not seen the Tax Policy Center, but I know math, and I know as a basic principle that when you stick bigger numbers in there and you are using the same formula to phase something out, you are going to make it available to people who…

So if the same formula is used, and you are increasing the amount by $1,400 per person--so you are going from, basically, for a family of four, what would be a $2,400 payment to an $8,000 payment, and you phase that down using the same…

The Senator from Illinois makes a good point. Would the Senator yield for a question?

Go down like a shot dog

The challenge of Biden going down will go down like a shot dog

Any effort to overturn the election will fall like a shot dog

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr…