I do not believe in excuses. I believe in results.

To me, it's sad that after 20 years of blood and treasure where are we now with the women, the Taliban in control.

the President says we planned for all contingencies.

And by law they're required to come up with a plan and they did not and that's the point the chairman has made over and over.

I thought that as soon as the President announced in April 2021 that we were going to abide by the Doha agreement and withdrawal that that withdrawal should have happened earlier.

The United States is not going to be monitoring Colombian coca crops anymore.

I want to start off by commending Colombia's decision to provide temporary protected status to almost 2 million Venezuelans fleeing the economic collapse and political crisis in neighboring Venezuela.

I do not think there is any doubt that Russia at this hour is a global pariah whose brutal war against Ukraine has killed hundreds of thousands of people.

It's not the role of the United States to handpick any nation's leaders and the Colombian people have spoken.

I want to apologize on behalf of what happened.

if Congress really wanted to protect children, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would have joined with us in passing robust comprehensive gun violence prevention legislation.

What we have seen today is... an effort by my Republican colleagues... to keep Americans on a treadmill of rage.

directly refuting a key talking point for those trafficking in antitrans rhetoric.

This Administration said time and time again that Afghanistan was not a war that could be won militarily.

The literal failure to plan was completely--completely erased the potential for on the ground diplomacy.

I will not rest until we get that.

There's no force in the world that have executed such a chaotic and difficult mission better than our U.S. and coalition forces did under the direst of circumstances.

You know, there's an old adage if you plan--if you fail to plan you're planning to fail.