If you have some specific suggestions, any one of the four of you, I would appreciate it.

I accept that. But what I am really asking... is there more specifics that we should be directing in the legislation itself to protect against efforts made to politicize these funds not for its intended purpose?

I just wanted to get that on the record, because once this bill is enacted, a year or 2 later, when we get a request from our States to reduce the match, let us be clear that there is at least a commitment here that they are able to make…

This confusion demonstrates weakness, and weakness always invites more aggression.

I think for you, as you think about accountability, that is really the threshold question that you have to reach.

I have also seen what has happened in the previous Administration, where we thought we gave pretty direct guidance through our legislation, only to see the way it was implemented on the environmental side, totally inconsistent with the…

Our ability to have influence in regards to Taiwan is very much related to how America is perceived as interested in Asian Pacific area.

we need to show unity and make it clear that there would be a heavy price to pay if Russia, indeed, does further incursions into Ukraine.

we have to be prepared to take action against Russia if they incur further into Ukraine.

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I would add that your budget is primarily financed through the industry itself.

I strongly agree with that. Half of our carbon free energy production is through nuclear.

The reality is, if it is not economically feasible because of the competitive disadvantage that it does put additional challenges on operating safely.

We want you to have the brightest minds coming out of our universities that are going to help us deal with the new technologies in nuclear power.

Nuclear power has not enjoyed the same type of tax incentives as other energy sources.

If we do not have U.S. leadership there is not going to be leadership in our hemisphere.

To me, the sanction that has gotten the most international attention is the Magnitsky sanction.

I agree with you that we need to have the programs in place to support democracy and democratic institutions.

I have not seen a robust use of the Magnitsky sanctions in our hemisphere.

It really is a critical moment, and I was listening to your response and I understand that you are collecting information.

I would just ask for your commitment that you would work with us and our staffs as we identify countries and individuals that we believe need to be considered for these types of sanctions.

Our hemisphere has always bragged about having democratic states and, yet, in recent decades we have seen a decline of democracy.

I would like to reflect on my trip to Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was fortunate to have 18 Senate colleagues join me to bolster President Biden's agenda and the United States'…

12 years ago this Tuesday, Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in Moscow at the hands of prison guards who, instead of treating him for the acute illness that his torturous, yearlong detention provoked, beat him for over an hour. He…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Sergei Magnitsky