It is heartbreaking and it is tragic and it will go down in American history as one of the most shameful chapters because of our failure and the President's personal decision not to arm the Free Syrian Army when all of his key national…

The Biden-Harris administration is committed to advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

I remain exceedingly concerned about the malign influence of China and Russia throughout our hemisphere and the apparent increase of that.

U.S. foreign assistance can help advance the national security, economic and humanitarian interests of the United States.

it is impossible to explain to the United States taxpayers, particularly my constituents, how the funds that--U.S. taxpayer dollars that flowed into UNRWA could be used to print textbooks that I have no doubt you have seen that have…

I am troubled by the conflict and humanitarian situation in Tigray.

This legislation, introduced by Senator Menendez and myself, counters the Chinese Communist Party's malign influence globally.

COVID-19 has brought to light the risks of collaboration on life sciences research with countries that do not share our interests like China.

I think that underlies the heavy lift that you have ahead of you.

The illegitimate Maduro regime should free all political prisoners, return political party organizations to their duly chosen leaders, and remove all undue restrictions on individuals and political parties to allow their free participation.

It is an American issue. I know Senator Menendez has strong concerns in this regard also and I hope we will work together.

Unless we do something now it will happen again.

Endorsing the responsibility to protect is one thing; acting on it is another.

I mean, if they will not make the commitment before they get the money, how in the world can you possibly think they will make the commitment after they get the money?

But compare that to China, which, according to a hearing that Senator Booker and I had on combating disinformation recently, China spends over $10 billion a year in state-sponsored disinformation operations.

I am increasingly worried by steps backward. The past weeks more than 50 journalists were beaten.

China is a strategic and global competitor of the United States and the Chinese Communist Party routinely engages in economic coercion.

I have got lots of interest in this issue of disinformation and propaganda and how we push back against it. I think it is kind of the new warfare of the 21st century.