countries that have empowered women generally do better on everything from how they deal with human rights to a democracy scale.

I think those two are in conflict. And it is hard for me to understand how we can have a Secretary of State who is able to go to Russia and come to Congress and talk about the challenges and the threats that Russia faces to our democracy…

I hope you will also look at promotions.

As I travel across New Hampshire and talk to stakeholders ranging from small business owners to students getting ready to pursue employment, a common theme I hear is about the importance of apprenticeships and how they help train the next…

I hope that you will take a look at this position again and that you will commit to ensuring that not only do we have a qualified ambassador in that role.

But they get undermined by a President who consistently refuses to hold Vladimir Putin accountable for what Russia has done in the United States.

I was disappointed to see that the President's budget cut the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by more than 65 percent.

What makes you all FEMA and what makes the United States the United States is that we do not look backward, we look forward.

I just would ask that you guys consider the State scale, not just where the State falls in the Federal size.

the recent announcement that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide the island with $18.5 billion in developmental assistance is a huge step in the right direction.

I would argue that that doesn't seem to be our view with respect to fossil fuels like oil and gas and nuclear.

many of us in the Senate were unsatisfied with the rate of recovery in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit the island.

But they pay taxes, too, and need FEMA to be there for them.

why after 6 months does Puerto Rico still 'have a long way to go,' as you have said?

I have a letter here, Mr. Chairman, which I would like to submit for the record from the Government Accountability Office.

You are a small town with very little infrastructure.

Energy efficiency is the number one job creator within the clean energy economy and accounts for three out of four American clean energy jobs.

I think we would all support the elimination of unnecessary red tape.