"This package will also ensure continuing eligibility for Pell Grants and other key education benefits for FSM students."
"We appreciate the advocacy and leadership of so many Members of the Congress on this issue, including Representatives Ami Bera (D-CA), Steve Womack (R-AR), Ed Case (D-HI), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), and Dele..."
"I was really disheartened to see the House Appropriations Committee Republicans pass their Fiscal Year 2024 state foreign ops and related programs appropriations bill with a 15 percent cut in spending..."
"Budgets reflect our values and priorities. And again, my disappointment in the 15 percent cut."
"We have to have robust funding to provide alternatives to China's Belt and Road Initiative."
"The countries in Central Asia...very much want the U.S. presence there."
"We've introduced legislation with some of our colleagues in a bipartisan way on the Ways and Means Committee to repeal Jackson-Vanik to allow our companies too more fully engage in Central Asia."
"And lastly, you know, as we think about, you know, the two decades long war with Afghanistan, the one way we can adequately honor our men and women that served in Afghanistan, is to make sure those re..."
"And, to that note, the Afghan Adjustment Act has been reintroduced. And, I think, this is an incredibly important piece of legislation."
"Jackson-Vanik is an outdated Cold War relic that originally targeted the Soviet Union and aligned communist countries."
"I'm proud to co-lead the bipartisan Kazakhstan Permanent Normal Trade Relations Act of 2023."
"We think that if we were able to repeal it, we would then be able to offer permanent normal trade relations."