Mike Pompeo: “Thank you for yielding, Mrs. Blackburn. Thank you to you and to Mr. Butterfield for being cosponsors of this bill.”

the Taliban would have a slight military advantage over Afghanistan's security forces, which would then likely grow in compounding fashion.

I am thrilled to join the Institute at Columbia University and to provide a unique voice defending traditional American values and the Founders' vision for our great nation, alongside the necessity to support our allies across the world.

I suspect that [Columbia's] outreach was intentional in the sense that they were seeking to bring onto campus...someone with a view that is very different than most of the faculty on their staff.

Ladies and gentlemen, President Biden sold out our citizens and our security and our sovereignty, and we need to get it back.