Chris Coons

We have donated hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine to dozens and dozens of countries.

If we really want to address the root causes of migration we must recognize the main drivers.

At a time when we are in a battle for the soul of the world as well as a battle between democracy and authoritarianism, this matters.

This pandemic is not done with your constituents.

I agree that we need to move swiftly. We need to be flexible in how we deliver this aid.

This started as one of the world's poorest countries, and it has descended into what is really now the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

We have no other members currently. And I know two are on their way back.

Whatever we do to ensure effectiveness and efficiencies, the private sector is critical.

We encourage an equally bold, and even bolder because the situation is so much worse than the last one, to address the drivers of the current crisis and build resilience.

We have an opportunity, 20 years after the PEPFAR program was launched, to once again demonstrate that the United States is a reliable global public health partner.

Any successful global response against the COVID pandemic requires United States leadership and resources.

The ongoing destruction of cities and the daily atrocities committed by Russian forces against defenseless Ukrainian civilians outrages and offends the sensibilities of all of us

The total number of people hungry has increased to 273 million, more than doubling the number living in hunger in 2019

This pandemic is far from over with us

Russia is using hunger as a weapon of war, and Congress is on record kind of condemning the use of hunger as a weapon of war through the recently introduced House Resolution 922.

I am confident that--I am increasingly confident we will have bipartisan support here.

What advice would you give the Administration? What advice would you suggest we give the Administration as to how to push that $3.5 billion?

Without urgent and immediate global action, we may witness social and political unrest, as we have seen only too often in the past.

I look forward to working tirelessly with each of you and with my colleagues to ensure that we do in fact advance this desperately needed appropriation to ensure that the world is safer from this pandemic.

We need to track this virus, we need to vaccinate the world, we need to diagnose and treat patients quickly.

I urge you in the strongest possible terms to ensure that the full $5 billion is restored to any future supplemental appropriations bill.

We need $200 million to be able to come up to $1.5 billion that we want to be able to help Africa to avoid a looming food crisis.

I fear food aid needs will continue to grow and we will continue to have to hold hearings like this every 10--5, 10, 15 years if we don't act now.

Today the leadership of the United States is more vital than ever.

We can't afford NOT to spend at least $5 billion--and ideally more--to help facilitate global vaccination.