Bill Keating

I share a very optimistic view that the present budget will not be the budget that we will endorse or support here in the House.

If they don't go somewhere, they turn into exactly what you suggested. They are Al Shabaab; they are Boko Haram.

This budget doesn't do it, which I think is one of its main weaknesses.

The most disturbing part of the budget, to me, is the explicit lack of faith in government.

I would hope the President would emulate all of his predecessors for many decades and release his tax returns.

These proposed budget cuts are a slap in the face to our Foreign Service professionals.

This budget ignores that link. It rewards one part of the triangle and it deprives, starves, the other two.

I think it is extremely ill--advised.

I don't understand this willingness to play footsie with Vladimir Putin.

The diseases we don't combat will reach our shores.

A lot of us think we have a moral obligation to help cure disease, improve access to education, and advance human rights.

We should not send American servicemembers into harm's way unless we have exhausted every other option.

If we no longer have diplomacy and development as tools to meet international challenges, what does that leave? The answer is simple: The military.

Our democracy is under attack and needs to be aggressively protected.

This is an established fact.

We need to continue to support Ukraine's reform agenda.

The dangers of partisanship... that partisan interests would override the national interests.

This is not about party, this is about country.

Wars will be fought with a four-to-one ratio of non-military to military measures.

We need to know as Americans what exactly the relationship is between the top levels of the executive branch... and this Russian regime.

I have called for a special investigator or special prosecutor.

I will submit that in writing, unless could I have 15 seconds, Mr. Chair?

As nice as this hearing is today it is not going to accomplish what the American public needs or what our allies need overseas.

It is a mixture of not just propaganda but a mixture of politics, a mixture of business and money and corruption.

I think the public as a whole centers their attention on this attack from Russia on the cyberattack and on the hacking.