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I am here to represent food production and to defend our ability to feed ourselves.

You can ask Congresswoman Lee about what is going to happen down in southern Nevada.

I have always said, in the East, you try to get rid of water. In the West, we try to preserve every drop of water.

I am going to stay in Congress until I get this damn thing done.

I would strongly suggest that you guys revisit your efforts in that regard and see how you might be able to make them more attractive so when they do bite on the hook that it is our hook and not the Chinese.

Have we thought about at all offering the same kind of services?

I passed the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act--I assume you are familiar with that--and it was in 2022, and it provides State with much needed flexibilities to stand up our overseas missions.

I have been intrigued by the fact that the Chinese have been modestly successful in these policing agreements that they have entered into with some of the countries.

This is a bipartisan issue, and we should do that.

We have had a long history of friendship with the Pacific Islands.

These agreements are foremost a promise to the three compact countries.

I would strongly suggest that you guys revisit your efforts in that regard and see how you might be able to make them more attractive so when they do bite on the hook that it is our hook and not the Chinese.

I have been intrigued by the fact that the Chinese have been modestly successful in these policing agreements that they have entered into with some of the countries.

Through these compacts we partner with them to advance economic prosperity, provide for U.S. military veterans from these nations, provide cooperation in areas of law enforcement and judicial training, and much more.

I passed the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act--I assume you are familiar with that--and it was in 2022, and it provides State with much needed flexibilities to stand up our overseas missions.

We have had a long history of friendship with the Pacific Islands, and this hearing comes as we usher in the next chapter of U.S. commitment to the region.

So it seems like that is a pretty attractive bait to put out there for getting countries to bite.

Further, our security partnership with these states are critical.