Chris Van Hollen

Russia has a history of waging war and deploying illegal and aggressive tactics to advance its control in the region.

The transatlantic alliance that has maintained our world order for more than 70 years has played an important role in responding to Russia's belligerent behavior.

[A]s Ex-Im continues to implement the China and Transformational Exports Program, the CTEP program, to help U.S. exporters compete abroad especially in the face of China's Belt and Road Initiative. What are some of the metrics that you…

Well, I appreciate the commitment. We have just got to close the gap between commitment and reality, and I hope you will work to do that.

What are some of the metrics that you would look to in measuring how we are faring against China in this competition?

President Biden has expressed his vision for strengthening NIST by proposing a 45 percent expansion of the agency's budget.

The work that happens at NIST has touched almost every aspect of American life for decades.

I am proud to support the nomination of Dr. Laurie Locascio to serve as the next Director of NIST.

Dr. Locascio expressed her enthusiasm for leading NIST at this exciting moment in the agency's history.

We have not concluded that the reports are wrong.

The Congress passed legislation--Senator Toomey and I authored legislation, the Hong Kong Autonomy Act--which requires the Executive branch to impose sanctions on officials that are complicit in the crackdown in democracy.

If they want to engage in this kind of aggressive behavior elsewhere they will pay a price.

The issue is that it is not just authority in the BRINK Act. It is a requirement.

I agree that sanctions are only one tool in our national security and foreign policy toolbox, but as you indicated, they can play an important role in enforcing a rules-based international system.

You would agree, would you not, that China grossly violated its international obligations when it cracked down on democracy in Hong Kong.

We have a big housing shortage in the country.

It just seems to me a way to move relatively quickly to expand home ownership opportunities by addressing the credit issue.

We have to obviously focus on both sides of the equation. We have to increase the supply of homes overall.

The better way, Lawrence, to your earlier point would be just to rip the band-aid off, get the 51 votes to waive the filibuster, which is the rule that he’s using to obstruct this and where he’s holding the country hostage.

This Texas law is blatantly unconstitutional. It clearly violates Roe v. Wade, and that’s what Judge Pitman found, and he laid it all out there in the over 100-page opinion, I think a very airtight argument.

I think that`s right because we were making the point that, you know, Republicans really should help the Democrats raise the debt ceiling to pay for the bills that Republicans themselves voted for, you know, things like expanding high…

I would just ask you, if confirmed, to use your influence to arrange a telephone call between President Biden and Prime Minister Kahn.

I hope the Biden administration and Germany will agree that if Russia takes any offensive actions or invades Ukraine there would be an immediate snap back of the Nord Stream 2 sanctions.

Do you agree that that is something that we should extend to Foreign Service families?

Your limitation on CO2 emissions for new projects is equivalent to one 400-megawatt combined cycle gas plant a year.