"It is the hope that these hearings will inspire the Senate to act on that bipartisan legislation."
"the events in Latin America often intersect with events elsewhere in the world."
"I think there should be a general recognition that we need to appropriate money in the next COVID bill to focus worldwide on the problem this is causing."
"The Rohingya need to go home. They need to go home safely. They need to go home with full citizenship rights."
"To have her play this role, presiding over and apologizing for this genocidal regime, is just disheartening to everyone who has put their time and effort into human rights."
"I hope you will look at the specifics."
"You could solve the problem for us. You could simply prohibit--I hope you will look at preventing these negative items from being on the credit report."
"We in Congress want to reflect our values in the appropriations but we are not the experts at the program level."
"I was in Steny Hoyer's office yesterday urging that the Democrats embrace this part of the Senate proposal."
"We are spending trillions to deal with COVID. I would think it would make sense for us to spend 1 percent of that on our worldwide response."
"I do want to point out that many of our allies are providing a much higher percentage of their GDP to aid, development aid for Africa and disaster aid to Africa and health aid Africa than we are."