Egypt is one of America's closest allies. Our taxpayers send them more direct funding for their military than we send almost any other nation in the world. But here is what happens to political opponents of the Egyptian regime when they…

As much as it is possible in an open setting, my goal in this hearing is to have a frank conversation so that we can appropriately factor China's Middle East goals as we right-size American goals.

The United States has been the dominant power in the Middle East for decades.

I share Senator Van Hollen's concerns about both getting that independent report, but also seeking accountability for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.

I will just argue that we should be careful to lower our standards when it comes to the end use of this technology simply because the Chinese have no standards.

I would just simply encourage my colleagues on the committee and, specifically, on the subcommittee to get that classified brief regarding some of the very difficult decisions the Administration has to make about technology conflicts in…

I am coming down to the floor to speak briefly on our efforts to protect women's access to birth control and contraception, but before I do, I just want to note something that happened here today that was really odd. So a few weeks back…

reserving the right to object, here is what the Senator from Texas is saying: It is fine to sell to China so long as you are a big American oil company and profiting off of it. That is the bottom line. The Senator had the chance to endorse…

reserving the right to object. I appreciate the Senator's interest in trying to make sure that American energy resources don't go to benefit communist China. And it is interesting because I don't think a lot of Americans know that prior to…

Now, that is just good diplomacy because China is doing that at scale.

One of the recommendations that we made as part of that report was to revitalize the Office of Subnational Diplomacy at the Department of State.

The ability to create a more diverse permanent staffing pipeline can take some time, but you can very quickly make sure that we have a diverse set of voices representing the United States abroad.

I ask unanimous consent that the following Senators be permitted to speak prior to the scheduled vote. Senator Murphy for up to 15 minutes; Senator Cornyn for up to 15 minutes; and Senator Coons for up to 3 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I come to the floor today to talk about a piece of legislation that was introduced yesterday by 16 bipartisan Senators: the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act. I am proud of the effort between Republicans…

I think this bill will pass. I think this bill will get more than 60 votes in the United States Senate. And I hope that we bring it up for a vote very quickly.

The Russians were obstructionist, as they always have been.

It is really hard in one hearing to categorize all the ways in which the Russians are using starvation as a deliberate tactic, not just in Ukraine, but all over the world.

There is only one reason for that, and that is Russia's decision to try to use starvation as a tool to benefit Bashar al-Assad.

Every single year the Saudis, and the Emiratis in particular, make these big, public pledges as to how much they are going to support food assistance and humanitarian aid in Yemen, and then every single year it is like pulling teeth to get…

the ceasefire has to be a mechanism to a political dialogue that eventually gets a return of the Yemeni Government to the Yemeni people.

The problem is, you know, remember in 2016, Trump effectively consolidated enough of the vote during the primary to keep everyone else running against him at bay.

I think gun violence and the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade on abortion rights, reproductive rights are factors in all of this, deep factors in all this as well, and Trump is paying attention to this.

the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to stop him from getting that gun.

But that`s going to be in play, I think, because of the economy and inflation, that that is just going to be such a strong determinant of where voters land in all this.

It is proof that this myth perpetuated on the country for 30 years, that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is good guys with a gun was a gun industry fiction created to sell more weapons.