Chris Coons

We are providing a significant amount, although our European partners are providing dramatically more.

It is critical that we meet this moment and provide the full supplemental request presented to Congress by our President.

I hope that we will work together to strengthen your voice in the interagency, to priority security assistance for coastal West Africa.

I would welcome a classified briefing at some point, Mr. Chairman, on the intersection between DoD, USAID, and State.

I am very disappointed at how this and previous Administration have chosen to prioritize regions and countries that I do not think fit the framing of that law.

This is a region--more people have died in terrorist attacks in West Africa in the last 5 years than the rest of the world combined...

There is something like $500 million in assistance to Niger that is now hanging in the balance.

I think we need to stay on this and press both how the intelligence failure happened in Niger...

I think we need to fix this and not wait another year or two or three.

One of the core goals of the BUILD Act was to strengthen our ability in development finance to partner and syndicate.

Thank you, Chairman Cardin. Ranking Member Risch, thank you for this hearing.

When we only have debt, we are at the end of the process. When we have equity, we are early in the process.

It is important to me that at a time when there seems to be bipartisan agreement, that protecting American invention and innovation should be a high priority--that we do our best at that.

That's music to my ears. I look forward to seeing you move swiftly in that direction.

President Biden has the strongest record of legislative accomplishment since LBJ.

Just look at the endorsements President Biden is getting earlier in the cycle, more broadly than ever before.

If the Republicans want a sharp contrast that Joe Biden's delivering on infrastructure, on high quality manufacturing, on making us stronger on the world stage, and they want to engage in political theater, an impeachment inquiry is…

I think President Biden has an incredibly strong record to run on.

There has been a five-year investigation – five years – by a Trump appointed U.S. attorney. This investigation started during the Trump administration. And they've come forward with not one shred of evidence tying President Biden to any of…

Judge Hall, if confirmed, will be joining a critically important court in the District of Delaware that handles a remarkable volume of complex patent cases, and significant commercial litigation.

Our first Subcommittee hearing was on foreign competitive threats to innovation, and it highlighted China's abusive practices.

We invested a huge amount of time in trying to sort of square the circle of patent eligibility.

This hearing will come to order. We are here today to conduct oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

One potential way to address some of the issues in PTAB that is in the PREVAIL Act, is a standing requirement for inter partes review.

I want to thank Ranking Member Thom Tillis and his staff for putting this hearing together on a consensus basis.