In less than 60 hours, funding for disaster response and recovery, nutrition assistance programs, and small business loans could all run out, along with many other programs our constituents rely on.

And as a result of these two bills we are hearing today, there will be no clean water for you.

Disingenuous is the kindest word I can use right now about what I am feeling and hearing in this Committee.

Let's not kid ourselves. I am on the Foreign Affairs Committee; I wish we would be talking about some of these issues.

It has been a while for me since I have been held hostage in this circus, but here I am again and I want to welcome you to the circus.

Migrants aren't voluntarily flooding into cities; Republican governors are flooding our cities with migrants, using people as pawns.

And by the way, it is not President Biden's fault. He is trying to fix manure dropped by the former president who had a reckless, feckless, racist, xenophobic non-foreign policy foreign policy.

the Biden administration has threatened economic prosperity when news has just come out today confirming how healthy the U.S. economy is.

Thank you for working with me on this and calling for the release of my constituent, Eyvin Hernandez, who has been unjustly, arbitrarily, and wrongfully detailed in Venezuela for over 15 months.

You know, film industry, the film companies would pull out of the Chinese market rather than lose access to Federal assets.

I also find it odd that this committee rails on the secretary of State when they are invited to this committee and, yet, we want to give them final edit on U.S. films.