I am committed to supporting Ukraine and holding Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government to account across international fora.

This funding request is critical to achieving the Administration's climate goals and reaching the $11.4 billion annual climate finance goal laid out by the President.

I expect you as well as all of our nominees today to respect the committee's oversight role and be responsive to the committee's requests for information.

We are, today, concerned about the expansion as it relates to Finland and Sweden, but we also need to be concerned of the focus in the Black Sea.

He is, obviously, watching very closely what is happening with Sweden and Finland.

We certainly urge that we have to make sure that that is constructive and timely.

this Sunday, we commemorate the 157th Juneteenth, a portmanteau of June and the nineteenth, which celebrates the liberation of the last remaining enslaved Black Americans at the end of the Civil War. This is our newest Federal holiday…

One of the things I really enjoy about this Committee is that we do work together, Democrats and Republicans.

I am very proud to partner with Senator Graham on the Coastal Habitat Conservation Act.

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The current high-skilled visa program needs to be reformed so that we are selecting those that possess the highest skills needed to grow our economy.

the welcoming of Assad is not welcomed here in the United States

Thank you, Senator Hirono.

I would suggest that the timing on some of these issues could very well be impacted by the--what is happening in the region as far as Assad being welcomed in other countries.

Those who did not receive it are having a much more difficult time competing.

We do not want the abuse of Interpol to, essentially, go after dissidents or even just everyday Syrians living abroad--expatriates--pressured by the regime.

The labor shortage today has made it much worse.

Lastly, let me just underscore we have a lot of tools at our disposal, including enhanced sanctions and other ways that we can express our concerns about the continued conduct of the Assad regime.

Our collective goal needs to be a total oil and gas embargo of exports from the Russian Federation.

For the sake of Ukraine's struggle, we must rise to the occasion with an effective European energy security policy.

In the face of war criminal Putin's war of mass murder in Ukraine, the free world is working to free itself from the yoke of Russian energy and stop funding Putin's war machine a billion dollars a day.

We need a wartime level of effort to deploy energy diversification infrastructure, to make Europe independent of Russian energy for good.

I can assure you we stand with the people of Ukraine.

For the life of me, I could never understand why Germany went forward with Nord Stream 2 from the beginning.