This direct budget support not only provides a vital boost to the wartime economy, but it also ensures the continued legitimacy of the Ukrainian government with its own people, which is critical for their will to fight.

Thank you, too, for your work trying to help Paul Whelan, who will be this month spending his 53d birthday in a Russian work camp, 4 years wrongfully detained by the Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin.

If we fail in assisting Ukraine to defend itself we know what's next and we know what the U.S. will honor in its Article 5 commitments.

There are voices in this country right now... that say that a mere phone call to Vladimir Putin... and walk away from our obligation.

Thank you all for traveling here, and frankly for your fight to really make your country and our relationship with Nicaragua stronger.

If there's anything I can ever do for you, please let me know.

I just want him to have the same freedom/education that you have in your country here in Afghanistan.

And I rise in strong support of this resolution. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a cosponsor in support of my friend, Congressman Joe Wilson's resolution, H. Res. 132, responding to the earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria on February 6, 2023…

I thank the gentleman from South Carolina for his strong bipartisan support in this gathering together of people on both sides of the aisle for America's interest. As he pointed out, we have an interest not only with our own defense…

I couldn't agree more. I think that Xi has made his point clear not to go beyond certain red lines.

I think China's power has increased since 2018.

There is something out there that caused him to say that 2027 was the year.