If the Department of Defense does not provide the ICC with the evidence necessary to prosecute Russians, we are sending yet another signal that we are all talk when it comes to bad actors.

D.C.'s out-of-control crime must be taken seriously and must be addressed as swiftly as we can.

We are not doing what we need to be doing to let China know we are serious about playing in their backyard.

For the past 20 years, the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee has closely followed the rise of China and authored and included in its annual appropriations bills numerous provisions that seek to mitigate or…

100 U.S. Senators recommended to you that we declare Russia a state-sponsor of terrorism to deter people like China from giving them weapons.

Let's agree on the fact that we need more adoptions.

It should never get to that point. No, we should not be separating families.

We shouldn't wait for another 9/11 to realize that Republicans and Democrats have to get in a room and figure out immigration reform.

We can't take care of anybody else if we can't take care of ourselves.

We have to be serious about the fact that we are a country of laws.

Let's agree on getting rid of late-term abortions.

I think we need to make sure that people's voices are heard.

We should not be separating families. But we shouldn't be taking families that we don't have any control over.

We have to make sure this is a national security issue. We have to vet them.

We need to let them do their job. We have got to enforce some things.

This budget puts you below inflation. So the committee's task is to reject all of this stuff and come up with a number that keeps us safe.

Listen. I've been a judge advocate most of my adult life and we've written this law in a way to make sure it applies to foreign nationals, Russians, involved in war crimes in Ukraine to help hold Putin accountable.

If he's allowed to succeed in that, China will learn certain lessons.