How about our request into the intelligence surrounding nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, how many documents were produced at our request?

Your team could do some work and find this because the answer is now up to over 16,000 pages for that.

Since the beginning of the conflict in March 2015 in Yemen it has clearly risen to a worldwide humanitarian crisis: 24 million people, 12 million children all in humanitarian need, 127,000 dead, 13,500 children targeted.

How many documents did the Department produce pursuant to a subpoena issued around the delay in arms production for Ukraine, suffering under Russian aggression?

I hope to hear more from all the witnesses today on how we in Congress can support the democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus.

It might be good to make people aware of that history. It is part of our history. It is not that unusual.

However, we must ensure these restrictions on civil and political rights are not abused by the governments looking to consolidate power.

intelligence needs calling out the people that are attacking our democracy in a very clear and unambiguous way, particularly Russia.

We must support the Belarusian people as they assert their right to chart their own destiny.

the idea of public trust as fundamental to democracy and that is where transparency, that is where suppression of our intelligence information, perhaps with our allied but even at home, is such a disturbing development.

As for Russia, the United States must ensure there is no question in Vladimir Putin's mind that a Russian military invasion of Belarus would be met with severe consequence.

The House Foreign Affairs will come to order.