Ted Deutch

USAID's importance and the importance of U.S. foreign assistance, particularly as we are seeing now for global health, is an issue of bipartisan agreement.

This is our civil rights moment. I pray that our Committee and this body will rise to meet that moment.

For Breonna Taylor, who was shot in her own home while the actual suspects the police were looking for were in police custody, we need to end the practice of no-knock warrants.

We need better data collection on police misconduct and use of force.

What we saw in the video of George Floyd's murder was the complete indifference to pain.

The thousands and thousands of peaceful protesters across this Nation deserve our attention. They deserve action.

We're here today because of the long and growing list of Black Americans whose lives were taken from us prematurely at the hands of police.

We need to support efforts that could lead to a safe haven for peaceful Syrian civilians and save countless lives.

The lack of U.S. leadership at the international level on humanitarian issues and the rule-based order by and large the impact of that cannot be underestimated.

It is time to show up. And it is actually time to win it because far more is at stake than the lives of these Syrians.

Isn't it time that we rally the world to that cause?

If Russia wants to veto a Security Council resolution that lays out the need not just to address the humanitarian crisis, not just to address everything that you so eloquently have spoken to, but to preserve the rules-based order, then…

But the big picture here, if we are numb to it, if we do a hearing on this dire crisis in a country where Assad has slaughtered over half a million people and there is no one who cares, with kids freezing to death right now, isn't, isn't…

Is it appropriate for us to simply say, ah, we are going to go to the U.N. Security Council and the Russians are going to veto, that is not the best use of our time?

Isn't the United Nations the place where the rules-based order should be on full display?

Five million have fled, 6 million internally displaced, over half a million dead. How is it that we are numb?

In a decade now, how many Syrians has Assad slaughtered either directly or with the support of the Russians and Iranians?

It is a genocide. And it is a terrible, terrible thing that is going on. The world is just sitting by.

I refuse to give up hope. And as long as I am a member of this body I will continue to push for the end to the violence and suffering, and to demand that those responsible face justice.

Thank you, Moumena, for her bravery in recording this message.

There are innocent people suffering in Idlib.

The Administration must now encourage our allies and partners to increase their contributions.

The vast majority sleep in tents or out in the open as temperatures plunge.

The military assault in Idlib is a painful reminder that the Syrian conflict is far from over.

Instead of making it harder, we ought to be reaching out with a hand to lift up, because they are the least among us.