Joseph P. Kennedy III

This situation of unaccompanied minors fleeing their homeland is an immediate crisis that demands an immediate response.

Now is the time for USAID and State to make judicious use of taxpayers' hard earned money to help empower the people of these affected countries economically.

I am wondering if we could get your thoughts on that and, to the extent that you can, comment about the continued instability in that region.

I personally think this last talk that we just had, because I brought up the issue of course, was most significant in that yes, let us be aware that China and Russia and how their influence on Central Asia and what is good for them is…

If we let the center of the universe be dominated by Russia or, and by China, by not utilizing a commercial interaction based on their natural gas and oil we are leaving that center of the universe to be in a commercial relationship with…

But as we create a real global economy, Central Asia is playing a pivotal role. That is the center of the universe.

So I prefer to, as I say, look at this not as an attack on Russia and China, but setting up a global type of system that will improve the life of everybody.

Drug trafficking is of pretty good interest to me as a former prosecutor.

Thank you for calling such an important hearing.

I think my colleagues have framed the debate about as well as you possibly can.

I don't see how we are going to be able to have a resolution of this in a way that benefits Israel's security.

As a proud Indian-American, I look forward to intensifying our alliance with India by fostering innovation, education, security, and economic engagement.

It has got great bipartisan support with Congressman Tom Reed as well a number of bipartisan co-sponsors, up to about 60 or so.

We didn't do the right thing there either, and we still have a dictatorship.

We need to understand that North Korea is a vicious dictatorship and we should be taking the steps that will permit in some way a unification of Korea but under democratic government.

I was a former Peace Corps volunteer. You learn pretty quickly that if you want to get anything done, you go to the women in the community.

But also you are running up against history. You are running up against traditions. You are running up against longstanding, not even institutionalized, but just deep-rooted feelings about how things go and how things are done.

I wanted to see if you could comment on there has been a couple of articles of late, even just in the past couple of weeks, about the prevalence or increasing prevalence of private philanthropy to take over some of the--or to fill the…

STEM education has been an issue that has been very important to me and important to Massachusetts and my district.

We believe that the package that includes IMF support, that includes IMF quota reform, which we do believe is critical to getting us to be able to have the kind of IMF support to Ukraine and other countries that find themselves in this…

We are very encouraged by this current interim government's readiness to engage--to engage with the fund, to welcome the advice and to begin making the difficult reforms.

Russia does not get to decide whether the U.S. dollar is a reserve currency and that we control our destiny in that regard.

There has been some issues with transparency, some issues with the full disclosure of the true state of that economy.

I want to voice my support, obviously, for my amendment in the en bloc that is now up for consideration.

Stop this funding today, and if it is that important to them as they say it is, that they would rather starve than stop this program, then they have spoken for themselves.