Chris Coons

I have never been this confident that we can actually reach zero hunger, but it will have to be done via a structural approach, not just only giving food away.

We have got to make sure that $5 billion that we are talking about here is used to also leverage financial institutions.

Look forward to the persuasive effort.

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

Senator Graham and I have both called for at least $5 billion.

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.

I think that whatever we do to ensure effectiveness and efficiencies, the private sector is critical.

The President's request initially included about $1.8 billion for food aid, which in my view, fell far short of what is urgently needed.

We should also be concerned, even alarmed, about the widening food security crisis that this needless and brutal war by Russia is causing for hundreds of millions far beyond Eastern Europe.

We have got to move fast. And I think that is critical to stabilize the countries that we are concerned are at risk.

I look forward to your engagement both on this Ukraine supplemental and on figuring out a path forward on COVID internationally, domestically.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 10:13 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 11 a.m…

I think we can and should do more to actively encourage effective outreach domestically.

Do you think it would be helpful for this committee to take up and pass that legislation in advance of the President's Summit for Democracy at the end of this year?

My view is that we are ceding leadership at the United Nations through a number of different bodies to China.

First, I introduced a bill with Senator Graham back in December called the Democracy in the 21st Century Act.

It recognizes that in the digital age we may need to modernize some of the tools that we fund for defending democracy.

I think the conflict in Ukraine, Russia's completely unjustified and unacceptable brutality against the civilians of Ukraine, its attempt to rebuild the Russian Empire, and the ways in which it is shaking the very foundations of peace in…

This is just a blatant disregard for any standards of democracy.

Failing to pay what we could, and should, weakens our credibility, and frankly strengthens some of our global competitors.

We are the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth; we have to step in on that.

Thank you for your tireless work on pulling together our allies in support of Ukraine.

The role you play with President Biden and Secretary Austin in marshalling the NATO countries, and all, to stand up united against Russia's unprovoked aggression, brutality in Ukraine, that is so important.

No Secretary of State has an easy job, but yours, in particular at this moment in our modern history, is exceptionally demanding.

We face a number of challenges, more than I need to take the time to recite in detail.