Todd Young

I want to thank you for holding this hearing on protecting the health and safety of American athletes.

As a graduate of one of one our Nation's service academies, I take the issue of sexual assault at the academies quite seriously.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, the Senator from Indiana will be recognized for up to 20 minutes. Working for…

Today, Mr. President, I rise to speak from the floor of this proud Chamber for the first time. My message today is, at once, a warning and an invitation. Dear colleagues, as our Senate increasingly grows more partisan, we move further and…

I do think it is important for me to emphasize as well something I said in my opening remarks, which is that official government assistance is going to continue to play an important role.

I would argue that we are going to have to put a lot more of our official aid in these failed and failing states.

I would certainly welcome those. Submit those for the record after the hearing.

So, Dr. Osili, we just passed some legislation that I introduced related to--we call it a What Works Clearinghouse in the area of our own domestic poverty challenges and other social pathologies.

I guess one other point that I would mention around Senator Merkley's bigger point about China is that what we see also--

avoid foolish, hasty, unnecessary, and perpetual wars that tend to accrue debt and erode liberty.

We do not have all the answers here, Mr. Lettieri, and all the solutions, frankly, should not emerge from the Federal level.

I am a firm believer in the need to open up our respective markets to one another.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 20 million people are at risk of starvation.

I see a disparity there, and it is of concern to many Americans.

I would certainly welcome the opportunity for the United States, which I believe needs to act far more boldly on this front.

Do you believe it would make sense to establish a statutory requirement for State and USAID to periodically produce and submit to this committee a national diplomacy and development strategy in direct support of our national security…

Less than half the available workforce has the appropriate training to fill available jobs.

I actually cited your prepared statement and your reference to Amartya Sen's observation in Development as Freedom that no famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

I believe in the mission of USAID, and I want to continue to be a fulsome supporter of that mission.

I think it is really exciting the possibilities in that area and I thank you for your work there.

The introduction of Russian airpower ushered in a new phase of this conflict, devastating and deliberate effects on civilians.

We do, indeed, have a fundamental choice to make on this authorizing committee about our level of assistance.

In addition to the political conversations that we will need to continue to move forward to bring this conflict to an end, on the humanitarian end, what more might be done by USAID, by State, or by our multilateral institutions to create…

The Chinese Government has taken steps to more severely restrict, and in some cases block, U.S. think tanks, non-governmental organizations, media outlets, and Internet companies from operating freely in China.

It is also good to be here with my former colleague on the House side, Mr. Green.