Ben Cardin

We need to take a much more aggressive stand with institutional infrastructure to deal with China's coercive policies.

It is critical that we expand the resources available to the Inter-American Development Bank.

If I am governing and taking care of the people in my country and I am going to have social unrest because people cannot afford the gas to get to their job or the food prices cannot be afforded, at the end of the day to achieve the goal of…

We have taken steps, and I must tell you, initiated by the Legislative branch of government, on dealing with trafficking in persons.

Yesterday, I introduced the International Financial Institutions Mobilization Act, which uses the United States' votes and leverage at international financial institutions to build resiliency and growth.

China is trying to dominate. We know that. The United States can stand up against China because of our economic strengthen and our political strength.

We do need Federal policies. They are critically important. We need our States to innovate, as we have seen in Louisiana and other States.

The Maryland Legislature passed a pretty aggressive plan to deal with carbon emissions, reducing greenhouse emissions by 40 percent by the year 2030 and to reach 100 percent clean electricity by 2040.

A price on carbon would not only accelerate CCUS; it would accelerate our ability to reach our carbon goals.

We should look at the NEPA process and use that to establish the real cost associated with transportation infrastructure, including its impact on climate.

We need all the talent of all of Americans in our State Department.

Diversity at the State Department is critically important, as both of you have said.

We have lost over a decade of progress in diversity at the State Department.

We have bipartisan support. We think we have enough support to pass this bill. We have already talk to our colleagues in the house, and I think they are ready to take it up as soon as we pass it in the Senate. So, we do hope that this bill…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 4:21 p.m., adjourned until Monday, July 25, 2022, at 3 p.m. ____________________

Make Black Sea security part of our strategy.

The United States and the Congress has been responsive to the food insecurity issues.

My concern is that we have our so-called allied countries that are part of our alliance in our support for Ukraine.

It was critically important during this pandemic and it worked.

Over the last two years, the SBA's attention has largely been focused on supporting small businesses through the pandemic.

Due to the effects of climate change, natural disasters are becoming more dangerous, deadly, and frequent in every part of this nation.

My experience during the disaster and the flooding in Ellicott City, Maryland, was a positive experience with the SBA.

Its importance for small businesses cannot be overstated.

We must continue to live up to that standard and I am absolutely confident that Carol Spahn can help us do exactly that

The Peace Corps is more than an opportunity for service. It is an important part of our identity as a nation.