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The alternative, should we choose to stay, was for the Taliban to resume attacks.

I have spent more time in Brussels, either in person or virtually, than in any other place since I have been on this job.

There is nothing that China would have liked more than for us to have reupped the war in Afghanistan.

We have surged Customs and Border Patrol. We have surged our intelligence and law enforcement capacity to do those initial checks.

We will continue to help them, and we will continue to help any American who still wants to leave and Afghans to whom we have a special commitment.

We have got to do everything we can to get those folks to safety.

It cannot be a Democratic or Republican strategy, it has got to be an American strategy.

This is about the values that bring us together in the transatlantic.

I do not think we fear the competition of Chinese companies or China's ideas.

And, again, we were able to pass that legislation in a bipartisan way, so I think this is another area where we could work together as Democrats and Republicans.

If I think about why I love the State of California, you know, from hiking in the back country as a Boy Scout...

There is a competition of values. And the more we can do to strengthen our relationship with like-minded allies and like-valued allies...

I think this subcommittee, as well as Members of Congress as you have heard today, want to work in a bipartisan way with the Administration to strengthen those values.

I have been very troubled by the democratic backsliding in countries across the world.

I think you'll find a bipartisan coalition as a member of the Digital Trade Caucus.

I think there is strong bipartisan support for something in digital trade.

I am very worried about the Chinese influence in this region and, again, want to express to those countries the strong partnership and importance of the U.S. relationship.

It was a tool not just of movement of goods and services but also a geopolitical tool of strategy in setting the rules and norms.

You'll find strong bipartisan support both in the committee as well as in Congress to get the resources necessary to honor our commitments.

We need to ensure that our diplomats have all the tools that they need to do this work.

Today we will be considering the Helping Emergency Responders Overcome Act, or the HERO Act. This has been an unprecedented time of stress and pressure on our first responders: firefighters, police officers, and our frontline healthcare…

Along with Senator Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin, we introduced the Tracking COVID-19 Variants Act asking for $2 billion to go to CDC.

We need an international coalition to do that.

It is extraordinarily important to all of us, to all the people in the world, that the United States play its part in establishing this is wrong.

We all, I think, recognize how difficult it is to deal with human rights abuses in a country like China.