I commend Mr. LaHood for bringing forth the resolution, so that we can support and stand in solidarity with the Lebanese people and for a secure, independent, and democratic Lebanon.

I commend Sara Jacobs for her resolution condemning the ISIS-affiliated terrorist activities in norther Mozambique.

I support all four of the bills in the en bloc.

We were all inspired by Tunisia in 2011, where a simple merchant, vegetable seller, started an Arab Spring.

the idea that those who engage in legal business actually carry around huge quantities of cash is absurd.

When you look at the casualties in conflicts, the enormous casualties come from deprivation of food and medicine and disease hitting civilian populations, and that is certainly the case with regard to the dispute in Tigray.

the fact that we are still providing tens of millions of dollars to help the Government of Myanmar/Burma achieve its economic objectives is a stain on the morality of the United States.

Every dollar that we spend helping improve the economy of Myanmar/Burma increases the power of the regime and is taken away from the poor people in other places in the world, particularly Africa.

The value of the dollar as a worldwide reserve currency is certainly not helped by us having the charade we are having here about whether we will even pay our bills.

It is amazing that it wasn't much, much worse.

He saw it in 2020 when President Donald Trump announced that we would be out by May 1 of 2021.

Imagine how harsh they will be to a girl whose father was in the Afghan Army trying to kill the Taliban.