12/05/2023
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"Equally concerning is the negative effect of malign state actors such as China and Russia."
"Putin openly endorses increasingly authoritarian rulers with the goal of destabilizing the region and threatening insecurity."
"The United States has had an enduring interest in a stable and prosperous Western Hemisphere and the democratic order is the best guarantor of those things."
"I wonder if both of you could speak to the fact that in the last presidential campaign then candidate Biden had promised sanctions on Maduro and the regime and nothing has happened in these 10 months."