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Wendy Sherman is a prominent American diplomat and a member of the Democratic Party, currently serving as the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. She has played a significant role in U.S. foreign policy, particularly in relation to global health and international relations with China. Sherman is known for her emphasis on collaboration in addressing global challenges, including pandemics, and has articulated the importance of managing the U.S.-China relationship as a key geopolitical issue of the current era. Her extensive experience in diplomacy includes serving as the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.
Imagine an antisocialist resolution so poorly drafted that the cochair of the CPA Caucus finds it necessary to come here and denounce it. But this resolution equates Willy Brandt with Kim Jong-un, Medicare with the Great Leap Forward, and…
American gas prices are too high. The pressure is on this Congress to do something about it. President Biden has done something about it by releasing oil at a strategic time from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and gas prices are down…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 9, strike the closed quotation mark and the final period. Page 3, after line 9, insert the…
We have already hit the debt limit. Republicans say they want to negotiate. We negotiate about spending all the time. What they really mean is that they want additional leverage by threatening this country with a default on our debt, which…
For 46 days, the Government of Azerbaijan has forcibly cut off 120,000 ethnic Armenians in the Republic of Artsakh. They are cut off from the outside world. Food has become scarce. They have to ration even basic items. Diapers and medicine…
What political nonsense this bill is. It allows an American oil company to buy oil from the SPR on Monday and sell it to China on Tuesday, which means it is fine for them to see SPR oil going to China as long as an American oil company…
For most of my life, I have been a student of history. As a CPA, a tax lawyer, and a former head of the second largest tax agency in this country, I focused on the fact that if you look at empires, republics, and kingdoms, the ones that…
For 3 days and 3 long nights, every class of Republican came to this floor to argue about which of them hated the national debt more. Now, as the first thing, they bring forth a bill that will increase the national debt by $1.6 trillion…
Now, this letter tells the SEC to back off, and here is the quoted language, from dealing with the ``purported risk of digital assets.'' Well, it is a few months after that letter was written, and there are a lot of people who sent their…
For 5 years, I have been trying to ban American investments in cryptocurrency. I am the only Member of this House to get an F grade from the only crypto-promoting organization that rates Members of Congress. My fear is that we will view…
Now, the crypto industry knows that their arguments are bad, and the advice given to anyone who has a bad public policy is when you come to Washington, you better bring a lot of money. It is being said that Sam Bankman-Fried showered money…
if China in any way, shape, or form provides material support to Putin in this premeditated unjust and unprovoked invasion, there will be consequences.
The United States would regard any effort to determine the future of Taiwan both other than peaceful means a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific.
Our relationship with India is a very critical one. They're the largest democracy in the world.
We are very focused on making sure that they understand what choices they're making here.
The selection of those individuals sent an important signal about the bipartisan U.S. commitment.
I think it is important that we talk with countries with whom we have multiple interests about our human rights concerns.
I think you will have seen in the Secretary's meeting in the Negev Desert with Abraham Accord partners and Israel that our partnerships and alliances are as important in our negotiations with Iran as they are in our standing up to Putin in…
I think that there will be actions for accountability, whether that's at the ICC, at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
We are seeing some signs of a willingness to have real serious negotiations, but I have to say, as your reporter said, so far, it appears that Vladimir Putin is intent on destroying Ukraine.
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