Chris Coons

I want to make sure that we stay engaged in this as a Congress.

Well, in my view it has a strong record of cost-effectiveness, and I am likely to work to sustain its funding and to figure out some way, on a bipartisan basis, that we can provide additional resources along the lines that you have also…

I was surprised to see a proposal to cut their budget by 40 percent.

Thank you for the opportunity to work together for another Congress and to do more for our small businesses nationwide.

Thank you very much. I will forward the letter to you and hopefully we will get him a timely response. I appreciate your service.

I do think it is important to regulate in a wise, and transparent, measured way so that the regulations are both effective and sustain.

There is widespread interest in and concern about not just the years of alleged fraud carried out by Mr. Bankman-Fried at FTX, but concern about the whole sector, about the safety and security and transparency of crypto transactions.

I joined a dozen of my colleagues in sending a letter just encouraging you, given the suite of rules in proposal development, to just make sure you are providing sufficient time for notice and comment on the proposed rules.

Global Fragility Act, something Senator Graham and I crafted based on positive experiences with Colombia.

I will be interested to have you keep me and others on the subcommittee up to date about that work in terms of the syndication.

Thank you for your great partnership, and development work in Africa, and around the world, over now so many years together.

Thank you for your persistent engagement on critical issues that matter to all of us.

I look forward to staying in touch with you about that, because anyone who has supervised a large portfolio project knows there is always a tail, there is always a few that go sideways.

I think countering corruption is an absolutely critical part of what you are doing.

If you are really serious about countering China, and we all are, you have to show up.

The consequences of that I think would be grave.

Thank you, all. I look forward to our ongoing partnership in this.

Because focusing on human development also means bringing those on board as well.

How is that working out, oversight of those who are implementing law enforcement activities?

It is hard to believe, thank you for coming today.

I think it is essential that, in the long run, conservation, the protection of biodiversity, wildlife, be seen as a central part of competent development strategies, by nations all over the world, if that ultimately, not in competition…

We, really, have parks that are managed by and for Africans is so critical.

The fortress model of conservation has demonstrably failed, and we need a human-centered and indigenously informed model.

A lot of this happens in very difficult, unstable locations, Eastern DRC, for example, is a difficult place in which to conduct counter-poaching activities.

The law that Senator Flake and I worked on in 2016, the End Wildlife Trafficking Act, authorized the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking.