We cannot have a government shutdown this weekend, certainly not while we are facing these existential crises for our friends in Israel and Ukraine.

to hold Ukraine hostage to unlocking that very difficult knot is dangerous for us and the world.

I wish this were not true--and it is true in the United States and nowhere else--but, on average, 70 women across this country are killed each month by an intimate partner, a husband or a boyfriend mostly, and most all of those murders are…

I hope that we find a path in the next 2 weeks to be able to get Ukraine the supplemental assistance it needs.

I am a big supporter of it.

You cannot have an economy that works for working families without a strong child care system, and right now, our child care system is just plain broken.

One of the things my Republican colleagues have talked about in this hearing is adjustments to the asylum standard.

If we do not act soon, the child care crisis is going to keep getting worse, and it will hurt our economy in the process.

The recent proposal that revived Trump's border wall, closed our doors on asylum seekers, and rewrote immigration laws is not going to go anywhere.

I do not understand the games that our Republican friends are playing with Ukraine aid. I think this is an existential moment.

No nation would tolerate that.

I have been heartened to see the President urge our allies in Israel not to fall subject to so many of the same mistakes we saw following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Today's battles against aggression and terrorism will define global security for years to come.

We have to bear the burden of doing everything we possibly can to ensure that civilians are not harmed and to care for those who need our help.

I strongly support their robust efforts to ensure further access to humanitarian relief for the civilians of Gaza.

Let us show them the strength of democracy by passing a robust, bipartisan national security package.

We will not let Hamas or Putin win.

The supplemental also requests $44.4 billion to help Ukraine continue to defend itself against Russia's ongoing aggression.

We cannot lose sight of the needs of civilians whose lives have been upended by war and violence around them.

I think it is important that we be absolutely clear the nature of this brutal terrorist attack.

Israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself and to try to take every possible step to make sure this does not happen again.

There is a moral imperative to reduce civilian casualties, but there is also a strategic imperative.

Huge super majorities in the House and Senate favor more support for Ukraine.

I urge my colleagues on both sides to work with me on all of these urgent issues.

We do believe that we have to consider things like humanitarian pauses to make sure that assistance can get to those who need it.