James E. Risch

It is the United States interest to promote economic freedom, which lifts hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and achieves shared prosperity.

I am concerned, however, about DFC's ability to balance its dual mandate to advance and protect economic freedom, particularly when this Administration at times seeks to use the DFC to promote its agenda.

There is nothing more nonpartisan and bipartisan than the national interests and the national security of the United States of America.

Ending this conflict would bring peace to a fractured region and remove one of Russia's key levers of influence in the region.

Our action in response to the crisis in the Nagorno-Karabakh will be key to broader U.S. policy toward the region.

We should be able to do both.

The ongoing instability in Europe and Eurasia has made clear the need for a strong U.S. policy on the Caucasus.

It is better to be America's adversary or irritant than it is to be America's ally.

I recently sent a letter with Chairman Menendez to Secretaries Yellen and Blinken outlining my surprise that this was not already a permanent position given Switzerland's outsized importance in the trade and financial sectors, as well as…

We hope to involve the chairman and ranking member and working across the committee either through that legislative effort or another in fairly short order to empower the State Department

The bill that Senator Coons and I have put forward remains the only working piece of legislation this body has before it on countering economic coercion

With all due respect, they are an adversary.

President Xi has said that he wants to be the global dominating power by 2049.

We do not allow foreign countries, especially China, to contribute to our people who are running for political office.

I could not agree with the whole-of-government approach more.

I do not think that can be understated and, indeed, people first look to what their financial situation is when they make decisions about how they are going to proceed.

The good news is Europe now clearly recognizes its mistake and will never go back to that situation again.

U.S. policy must account for this rise of coercive economic practices and maintain our competitiveness in order to achieve what is best for our national interests.

Thank you. You guys are doing Heaven's work. There is no question about it. We appreciate what you do.

If I was a purchaser of supplies, then anything I saw from Xinjiang would raise my antenna.

My time is limited here, but I do want to touch on what I think is probably the most obvious matter we hear about in the news and that is the Uyghurs in China.

The United States is the leading global voice on combating human trafficking and has been so for decades.

There is absolutely no reason it should not.

It is shame, however, that some governments participate in state-sponsored patterns of trafficking.

We need to all pull the wagon----