James E. Risch

Look, for years, we have focused on putting out fires. And we were very, very successful at it, and by being successful at it, we have caused the problem that we have got, and that is that the West, particularly, burns every year.

We also need to make significant headway with fuels reduction projects.

A lot of us were very concerned about what happened in Sudan.

I appreciate your comment about the 6,000 work visas for Idahoans, but that is a drop in the bucket.

We certainly do not want to be hostile here. This is not a partisan issue, obviously. This is an American issue.

What should be a reasonable expectation on a person's part?

Foreigners have to wait months, sometimes years, to visit the United States.

Thank you for the important work you do and it is critically important for a vast swath of Americans who partake of these services.

Americans have been struggling to get passports for years now and waiting weeks longer than they did before the pandemic.

Well, and that is exactly what it was designed to do. It was to provide assistance without in any way affecting the other strong provisions that have been in place for many, many years and has worked--have worked very well.

The issue we are talking about here is not a partisan issue.

We wind up with the same criticism after it has passed.

We are not going to tolerate an agency saying, well, we do not like that law so we are not going to enforce it.

We cannot allow Putin and his cronies to get away with the vicious crimes they are committing. Impunity is not an option.

The international community must remain steadfast in documenting and prosecuting Putin's war crimes.

The atrocities Putin has committed in Ukraine very quickly rose to the level of genocide after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, February 2022.

I welcome the ICC's recent decision to issue arrest warrants for Putin and the Russian commissioner for children's rights.

We will work very hard on this effort. We are working hard. We will continue to work hard.

I am a little disappointed in that answer, that it is not more aggressive and more recognizing of how important the DFC can be in what you are trying to do here.

I appreciate that. DFC was put together by us, I think for the exact--I mean, this is a poster child for what we want to use the DFC for.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing here today. We appreciate that.

We send billions there and what do we get? Speeches, nothing more.

I think probably anybody that operates in this lane on diplomacy cannot be more disgusted with the U.N. than it is right now.

I think there is a real opportunity there and I think that we really ought to exploit it.

I do not know how you can watch what has happened in Ukraine, the atrocities that have been committed there on a par with the kinds of things that happened in World War II and say, well, this is all right because they wanted to join NATO…