I strongly support efforts to extend this exemption period from 9 years to 13, ensuring parity between small molecules and biologics.

When it comes to health care, that means protecting Medicare for the next generation by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes; strengthening Medicare's negotiating power for the cost of prescription drugs; and investing in…

as long as I'm chairman of the Finance Committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

it is as bad as coal.

DFC has blinders on, and is continuing to support all these fossil projects.

the world is at this crisis point.

And yet here we are continuing to promote one project after another.

I have submitted a request for this budget to include some dedicated funds for supporting folks who advocate for, and support environmental defenders.

USAID's Climate Strategy says it seeks to promote a safe and secure political environment for indigenous peoples, human rights, and environmental defenders.

In Vietnam we really wanted to reinforce support for the Leahy programs to heal the wounds of war.

it is time to say that DFC has to rethink this strategy doing far more harm than good.

The amount of fossils that can be burned by humankind across the globe, and keep us below 1.5 degrees centigrade, is microscopic now.

It is exciting, as someone who grew up during the Vietnam War, to see the positive relationship that we now have with Vietnam, and hoping to build on that.

I really salute the administration's commitment to those--to the four programs: So one is the dioxin cleanup, one is the disabilities with children, and a third is continuing the demining, and the fourth is the Wartime Accounting…

Transitioning to LNG is not decarbonization.

the DFC is doing exactly what we have to not do.

Congress needs to provide for an annual base funding increase to support ongoing operation and improvement obligations.

Amen to that. And I have a bill to change that, so Thank you, for drawing attention and spotlighting that issue.