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This budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies worldwide.

I am determined to continue to do that and very much appreciate the work that we have been able to do with this committee over the last couple of years and look forward to the work ahead.

The United States has a positive vision for the future: a world that's free, secure, open and prosperous.

The first set is posed by our strategic competitors--the immediate, acute threat posed by Russia's autocracy and aggression, most destructively through its brutal war against Ukraine.

The immediate, acute threat posed by Russia's autocracy and aggression, most destructively, of course, through its brutal aggression against Ukraine.

We can't do more with less. We must increase our investments in our diplomatic and development tools if we want to strengthen our national security.

This Administration will not support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Bashar al-Assad.

However, we do not support the expansion or the alteration of the veto.

We support the expansion of the permanent and non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council.

A reformed UN Security Council, as President Biden has said, is in the best interests of the United States.

I do think that there is without exaggerating it a moment of opportunity here that would profoundly be in the interests of the people of Armenia as well as Azerbaijan.

I have been very engaged on seeing what we can do to help Armenia and Azerbaijan come to a peace agreement.

I made a commitment that I would see a marker of my success or not in this job whether or not the institution made real progress in building an institution that actually reflects the country that we are there to represent.

It is imperative that it be sustained.

It is hard to overstate the importance of the Black Sea grain corridor.

The Black Sea grain corridor has been a significant success, getting out about 24 million metric tons of grain from Ukraine.

Yes, and I think not only is it advancing, I believe that we have asked actually your respective teams for recommendations and we really look to that.

It is hugely important to our ability to attract, but also retain the best talent and we are in a competition for talent.