06/13/2025
https://www.cnn.com...
"the ranks of the Foreign Service can be dramatically reduced without harming the national interests of the United States is incorrect."
"decreasing the number of diplomats available to serve in U.S. Embassies abroad... will decrease our ability to shape events and advance our interests on the continent."
"The State government--this is the Texas of the Texas miracle, one of the top 12 economies in the world... have literally been sending these sex trafficking victims, human trafficking victims, to jail ..."
"Thank you, Mr. Chair and Chairman Smith for your leadership on this over many years, in particular Chairman Smith, who really was the leading force in the House for many years on the trafficking issue..."