Chris Coons

We just spent several days together, thinking about, talking about, and debating the future of food assistance and humanitarian relief.

If we allow the Russian aggression in Ukraine to go forward with impunity, we open a Pandora's box around the world.

I think most importantly you make a compelling case for the urgent national security-based need to invest more robustly in our diplomacy and development.

If what we hear in country after country is: we welcome U.S. investment, we welcome U.S. companies, we want help transforming our economy.

Thank you, Administrator Power. Without objection, I am going to actually have 7-minute rounds here, and that means we may do one round.

It sets a goal of the Ending Preventable Maternal and Child Deaths through such affordable and simple practices as nutritional supplements, clean birthing practices, and vaccines.

I am encouraged by the fiscal year 2024 budget request for your Agency, and the rest of the State and Foreign Operations budget, as the challenges of our time demand bold investments.

We cannot be a player on the world stage and keep our country safe and prosperous if we put ourselves on the sidelines.

A presentation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made it very clear that the recent initiative taken by the Biden administration to require an application, a legal process crossing at that border point, brought down dramatically entrants…

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

I think it has a profound impact in Asia, for example. Everyone is watching to see how we and the world respond to this aggression.

I think this has been President Biden's best chapter, in a very long career public service.

I think this is a critical opportunity to crowd in private sector capital investment, and de-risk it.

The 20th anniversary of PEPFAR is, indeed, worth celebrating. I am glad that you have prioritized it in your opening statement.

I very much believe we should be back in UNESCO. Again, not as a gift to UNESCO, but because things that are happening at UNESCO actually matter, and if we are not there, we are not shaping it.

We are in the middle of a global food crisis, according to the World Food Programme: pre-pandemic, there were 135 million people in more than 50 countries who were facing hunger.

I am incredibly proud of the work of my OIG colleagues and the value we provide.

I appreciate your enduring interest in our work.

It is important that we get back there.

If we are going to achieve our national security objective, it is critical to ensure our diplomatic corps is putting the right people with the right tools, and the right resources, and training in the right places to carry out their work.

I take my statutory requirement to keep Congress fully and currently informed seriously.

One of the areas I think we could come together is around reforestation and conservation.

I believe there is much more good news about our partnership, and its potential, in terms of border crossings and security, fentanyl interdiction, economic development.

One of the things we could do to help with public diplomacy is confirm Elizabeth Allen to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy.

I just spent the weekend in Mexico with a broad bipartisan group of Senators and House Members.