Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I appreciate all the witnesses' testimony.

We need to come together with policies that we can pass in a bipartisan manner.

During my time in Congress, my colleagues and I have repeatedly striven to hold the government of Myanmar accountable for its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.

Let's be clear: what is happening in Myanmar toward the Rohingya is State-sponsored genocide, period.

American tax dollars should not fund any kind of foreign assistance going to regimes responsible for disenfranchising over a billion of its own people.

the best thing I think we can do as a Nation is economic pressure.

we as a Nation need to invoke these other nations.

I look forward to this hearing--from hearing from each of you in how the United States can better save this population and hold the government of Myanmar accountable for its abuses.

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