collective bargaining is a fundamentally conservative idea.

we should be expected to do much more about that.

This is a red alert moment and while Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alone can't come close to solving this crisis, I plan on pushing to dramatically scale up every capability that you have and the department has to stop the flow of…

upwards of 70 percent of the crime guns that are recovered in Mexico originate from the United States and we should be expected to do much more about that.

I think one of the most difficult things this committee will have to deal with is this rather unusual request to set aside a significant portion of funding.

We pressed him on offers of cooperation that we have made to his government to try to work together on identifying precursor shipments and fentanyl labs.

People in this building often pretend that you have the legal ability to just keep denying entry to migrants indefinitely under Title 42. You don't.

I hope that you're right. I mean, I think if past is predicate, we have had difficulty in convincing the Mexican Government to take our offers.

Well, tell that to the 42 companies now.

How can the IRA and then with the fact that Biden wants to have the moonshot program and develop these new cancer cures, how can that fit with the fact now that we are killing American R&D and trying to develop new cures because we are…

I will be introducing two important pieces of legislation: first, the Protect Global Heroes Act... and second, a comprehensive countering authoritarianism bill.

We cannot stand idly by as democratically-elected leaders are threatened or pushed out of power by mobs or militias.

We need to adapt our assistance to keep up with emerging technologies that can support democracy activists and human rights defenders.

The United States must better leverage our democracy assistance, international diplomacy, and sanctions regimes.

I think we can still continue to work to find common ground. Obviously, we made a breakthrough last year. The bill we passed, the bipartisan Safer Communities Act is the first significant anti-gun violence legislation in 30 years.

I know that eventually, we're going to pass legislation that funds anti-gun violence programming in every neighborhood. I know we're going to take these dangerous weapons off the streets. I know we're going to have universal background…

There is something uniquely cataclysmic when you lose a child, when you lose a family member, but it is also important to remember that all the kids in that school, all the adults in that school are never ever going to be the same.

later today, we are going to vote on an amendment offered by my colleague Senator Lee, and this is a really important amendment. And this is a really important debate for us to have: the question of how long authorizations of military…

I kind of feel like they have made their decision, and I think that our funding and our policy should reflect that.

It seems to me that President Saied has made up his mind to move away from a success story of democracy in Tunisia, towards a neo-autocracy.

I know that you are just as concerned as this committee is, about the dramatic turn in Tunisia away from democracy.

I am of the belief that the GEC needs to take a primary, rather than secondary role when it comes to the way in which we counter misinformation around the world.

there is really no way to combat Russian misinformation, their propaganda efforts, which are integral to their campaign against Ukraine; or China's efforts to expand its reach, without the GEC.

I kind of feel like they have made their decision, and I think that our funding and our policy should reflect that.

Senator Risch and I have led an effort to rewrite the Accountability Review Board process to try to give your folks a little bit more reason to reengage in those fragile places.