James E. Risch

In Africa, we have had coups in seven countries in the last 3 years.

This proposed budget does contain a poison pill... in the form of a, quote, 'Green Climate Fund' which proposes to transfer U.S. taxpayer money to China through the United Nations.

I believe President Salva Kiir, First Vice President Riek Machar, and other South Sudanese political leaders have collectively failed to meet the conditions for genuine and peaceful elections in South Sudan.

In April you said China was the primary contributor to Russia's military complex.

In Africa, we have had coups in seven countries in the last 3 years.

This is a time for U.S. leadership and resolve.

Transitional government leaders should act with urgency to create conditions for a genuine and peaceful electoral process.

Your characterization of it being shameful equivalence that they have engaged in yesterday is actually stunning.

We cannot use U.S. taxpayer dollars to support an open ended, poorly conceived mission in a country plagued by extreme gang violence and political instability without some kind of assurances that things are going to be different this time.

I do not think they are doing themselves any favor by helping to feed the Russian war machine.

By rejecting low carbon energy options like natural gas and pushing a green only approach the Administration is doing more to enable China than out compete it.

The Administration's policy is fatally flawed. Outreach and accommodation have failed, and the lack of any serious strategy has come home to roost.

Whatever the solution, I am all in.

Your characterization of it being shameful equivalence that they have engaged in yesterday is actually stunning.

This is a time for U.S. leadership and resolve.

We cannot use U.S. taxpayer dollars to support an open ended, poorly conceived mission in a country plagued by extreme gang violence and political instability without some kind of assurances that things are going to be different this time.

It appears we are at the start of a new era in global affairs, one marked by growing instability, increasing competition, and fraying economic relationships.

The Administration's policy is fatally flawed. Outreach and accommodation have failed, and the lack of any serious strategy has come home to roost.

Congress has asked for a Ukraine strategy, which I suspect will never be delivered.

I believe President Salva Kiir, First Vice President Riek Machar, and other South Sudanese political leaders have collectively failed to meet the conditions for genuine and peaceful elections in South Sudan.

Whatever the solution, I am all in.

It appears we are at the start of a new era in global affairs, one marked by growing instability, increasing competition, and fraying economic relationships.

They want to participate in that.

Transitional government leaders should act with urgency to create conditions for a genuine and peaceful electoral process.

I think we have to look at the appropriate steps to take to deal with, again, what is a profoundly wrongheaded decision.