I want to introduce into the record a State Department travel advisory map that tells you where to go and not to go in Mexico.

I think China just agreed to buy oil, as much as Russia can supply.

How about this idea. Rather than just interdicting at the border, we go to the source and declare Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under U.S. law.

More Americans are being poisoned by fentanyl from Mexico in a single year than we lost in the entire Vietnam War.

Our men and women of the State Department, they are heroes in their own way.

Are you going to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law? Do you intend to do that?

The goal is to run this more like a business, we have the former Ambassador to Japan here.

I would encourage you, that if he came here, we should turn him over.

I think now is the time, Mr. Secretary, to label Russia state sponsor of terrorism, because they are.

Soft power, to me, is just as important as hard power, and many times even more important.

I want to introduce into the record a State Department travel advisory map that tells you where to go and not to go in Mexico.

We need to appropriate money directly to counter the influence of China, but it will not be in a mandatory spending construct.

More Americans are being poisoned by fentanyl from Mexico in a single year than we lost in the entire Vietnam War.

Haven't we now reached a point where, frankly, we have to understand we are entering a period of geopolitical competition bordering on conflict?

I think the President said he thought that was a sound approach.

I think now is the time, Mr. Secretary, to label Russia state sponsor of terrorism, because they are.

Do you agree it is now time to change our policy because it is not working? Or do you think it is working?

Senator Menendez and I, and many others have pushed for a $2 million authorization for Taiwan's defense needs.