Thank you and your team for two GAO reports I requested, one on preventing child abuse in youth residential facilities and another that evaluated the employer-provided childcare credit.

When America is involved in the world, the world is a safer, freer, and more prosperous place.

I think that is part of the reason the solution really has to be with communities, how do we bring democratic norms back to a more robust place.

Thank you, Mr. Blanton, for being with us again.

Well, thank you, Chairman from Ohio and our ranking member from Washington.

I thank the chairman for working with me to meet President Biden's goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 as we transition to a clean energy economy. While I support funding the Coast Guard, I am deeply concerned…

We cannot protect democracy at home or abroad if we do not protect the right to nonviolent self-expression and freedom of the press.

And I also want to thank you for your focus--it is a priority for Congress and the Biden administration--on cybersecurity.

voting is a vital way to hold government accountable.

Senator Gardner and I, back 3 years ago, we were able to pass the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, which actually resulted in an appropriation of $210 million a year for 5 years from 2019 through 2023, to encourage democratic institutions…

This subcommittee is going to continue to work to shine a spotlight, but using your lives, using your work, in order to accomplish that goal so that repression, the compromise of freedom, of free speech, of the press wherever it may exist…

We talk a lot in this body about standing up to repression.

Oftentimes in this Chamber, you will hear the phrase ``transformative.'' Sometimes it is hyperbolic, but on this occasion, this is transformative legislation. We have fundamentally changed the opportunities for retirement for the American…

I think it is a very important lesson to be learned from the experience of Hong Kong that the United States and other democratic governments have to take steps right now and to take concrete steps into protecting the freedom of expression…

Can you talk a little bit about Facebook in the Philippines?

I include in the Record a letter that has been signed by 50 different charities in support of this legislation. March 27, 2022. Hon. Richard Neal, Chair, Ways and Means Committee, House of Representatives. Hon. Bobby Scott, Chair…

the leadership that you have provided, not just for the Philippines, but for the whole world is absolutely immeasurable.

I stood in solidarity with Armenian Americans in my district to commemorate the 107th anniversary of this atrocity.