"We can't afford NOT to spend at least $5 billion--and ideally more--to help facilitate global vaccination."
"We need to track this virus, we need to vaccinate the world, we need to diagnose and treat patients quickly."
"Today the leadership of the United States is more vital than ever."
"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 pand..."
"this pandemic is far from over with us"
"the total number of people hungry has increased to 273 million, more than doubling the number living in hunger in 2019"
"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"
"Any successful global response against the COVID pandemic requires United States leadership and resources."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Without urgent and immediate global action, we may witness social and political unrest, as we have seen only too often in the past."