Thank you, Senator Schatz.

A group of us, led by Senator Graham and me, but four others, introduced the U.S. Foundation for International Conservation Act.

We need to see that, but we also want to see steps taken to put Tunisia fully back on the democratic path it was on.

I couldn't agree more that that is one of the core arguments for robustly resourcing the State Department and the USAID, is to make sure we are meeting this moment.

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.

we have to continue the work of leading a global coalition that holds Russia accountable for its cruel and unjust invasion of Ukraine.

I just had a chance to be with David Beasley, along with the Vice Chair, the group of us who spent last week looking at food security.

We are hopeful that the agreement will proceed, as it is meant to, there really should be an infinite extension that should not be time bound.

we need to strengthen productivity in the agricultural sector and employment in the agricultural sector.

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. That has gone up to 345 million people across more than 80…

The fact that Putin is not only killing Ukrainians, but weaponizing food for developing countries, is just a complete outrage.

I am very fortunate to have Senator Graham as the Ranking Member on this subcommittee.