I strongly support Representative Castro's H.R. 406, Partner with ASEAN Act, and this en bloc package and urge my colleagues to do the same.

It is unfortunate that despite our best efforts, it isn't. We want the State Department to be laser focused on the challenges posed by the PRC.

This will force the State Department to treat the Chinese Communist Party and their government as who they really are, not a developing nation but an economic power that must be dealt with.

Mr. Castro's timely bill, H.R. 406, reinforces the importance of diplomacy in our engagement in the Indo-Pacific.

The U.S. should not be complicit in these abhorrent practices.

So this is the time for the United States, especially this Congress, to be very clear and very firm in reasserting our support for the right of the Taiwanese people to decide when and how and if they are going to manage their relationship with Beijing.

There can be no question that U.S. support for Taiwan is not just bipartisan but nonpartisan.

If we are seen as a weak nation, we will be treated as such.

I think what you're going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades and it depends on what it does.

I was very straightforward. There was no minced words. It was polite, but I made it very clear. If in fact, he invades Ukraine, there`ll be severe consequences, like not he`s ever seen, or ever happened seen in terms of being imposed.

My focus is, obviously, to deal with the China crisis and to get us, hopefully, in a place where it is constructive and we are moving in the right direction.

And I have to say I am saddened that some of my colleagues would seemingly put their faith in the word of the Iranian foreign minister over that of yours.

The situation in Burma is going to demand America's attention and this committee's attention for some time to come.

We will make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying up to dictators are over.

I will not do foreign policy by tweet.

In my experience as an infantry officer on the ground in Iraq, there were many times when I was asked to do jobs that I was unprepared for and untrained for, because they were State Department jobs, but the State Department wasn't there.

Under this administration, America’s position in the world has never been weaker.

What message does it send to Russia that we have failed to take action in response to their activities?