I think it has great potential, and I appreciate your attention to that arena, as well.

I think it is a failure of the State Department, again, under your watch, to take the necessary steps to guard against the risk that OneVoice would engage in political activities to unseat a particular foreign head of government.

This is not surprising, and I am sorry to cut you short but it is not surprising. It is actually very typical of the way the CCP behaves in this sort of environment, particularly these Belt and Road projects. They are predatory, they are…

I am a very strong proponent of deeper economic ties because they lead then, certainly, to stronger security ties.

I look forward to working with the chairwoman and my fellow committee members to pursue this.

the proposed Byhalia pipeline, which has been withdrawn, fortunately, that was in my district.

he would turn Saudi Arabia into a, quote, 'pariah' and he added that there is, quote, 'very little social redeeming value in the present Government in Saudi Arabia.'

If confirmed, I will work collaboratively with all stakeholders to identify ways we can continue to expand country responsibility on sustaining HIV impact.

I appreciate the opportunity for this committee and hearing, and I just wanted to make some remarks concerning our hopes for the bill.

We need to establish a Federal advisory committee on environmental justice to better advise the Corps on these activities and actions that can be taken to ensure more equitable delivery of services and projects.

I resolved to try to reform the nationwide permit process that gave them that opportunity, but also to work to ensure environmental justice issues are centered properly.

American families are suffering everywhere from high gas prices, and I understand that President Biden is on his way to Saudi Arabia next month, presumably to ask the Saudis to produce more oil and bail the United States out of this energy…

Despite the importance of the Panama Canal to United States national security and our economic security, the trends that I see in Panama are deeply concerning.

We had a pipeline here in Memphis, the Byhalia pipeline that proposed an oil pipeline in predominantly minority communities, and it was a heroic effort that led to their decision to not go forth with the pipeline because it went straight…

It is our hope that it will become, and has become, more recreational.

Audubon is a proud supporter of the MRRRI bill (H.R. 4202) which will create a federal program to provide leadership, funding, and guidance to implement a 'whole of the river' approach to restore the river.

I was proud to join with Chairman DeFazio in urging the administration to reopen and reexamine the nationwide permits.

During my time serving as ambassador to Japan I worked very closely with the government of Japan to ensure that their network became clean.