We need to take a whole-of-Government approach to the problem, if we're going to keep up with crypto in illicit finance.

The sanctions imposed thus far by the Biden administration are harmful to the Russian economy, but not crippling.

We need to take a clear-eyed look at how these assets can endanger consumers and our security.

We need Congress to work together to enact a regulatory framework specific to digital assets that provides this much-needed clarity.

It is disgraceful and it needs to stop.

We cannot let abuses of digital assets endanger our financial and our national security.

we do not block the regular people in Russia who are actually opposition within Russia.

We also need to work to ensure regulatory clarity for digital assets.

Madam President, I would ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would offer to say to my friends justice and holding police accountable is not mutually exclusive.

I am enormously gratified that with the leadership of Joseph Biden, the President, and Vice President Kamala Harris...

I do want to just reassert the Nonprofit Security Grant Program for the nonprofits, but also the recent Vice President's announcement... for our HBCU schools.

I would also commend my good friend to work with me on H.R. 40, a commission to study slavery and develop Reparation proposals.

We have come too far to look the other way.

Efforts to derail any person's ability to seek higher education or pursue their religious freedoms is an assault on their fundamental Constitutional rights.

Without that Federal support it will be difficult for us to meet the moment, if you will, and for us to build our capacity to properly respond to these ever-increasing threats.

Unfortunately, I am concerned that the current lack of regulatory clarity here at home is undermining that tradition and driving innovation abroad.

Threats against historically Black institutions are attacks on the core freedoms promised to all American citizens.