Chris Van Hollen

I see the QUAD as the backbone of both economic and security interests in the region.

I think North Korea's recent actions in just the past month... has alerted Japan and South Korea to the collaboration and cooperation that is essential with the United States of having a common front.

That is why Senator Sasse and I teamed up, and we passed a bipartisan bill here in the Senate called Protecting American Intellectual Property Act.

As in all things, the United States will lead with our values--democracy and free expression, free press and free enterprise, support for human rights and human dignity.

I think the new administration, the Biden administration is still sort of framing its approach to North Korea.

The United States must proceed from a position of strength and pursue intense diplomacy--with the People's Republic of China, and with our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and around the world.

We need to keep at that work.

The Biden administration is right to seek effective channels of communication with Beijing to manage our competition responsibly, to diminish the risk of an accidental conflict and, above all, to maintain peace.

We can leave no space for China to try to undermine the fundamental values and principles of the U.N. system.

The U.S. Government would weigh in and be authorized to impose economic sanctions and penalties.

We recognize it is a fragile process.

Right. So again, as you pointed out we already have a sanctions regime on the Taliban.

We have an obligation to try to provide humanitarian assistance, and yes, we have to make sure it does not go through the Taliban.

Time is short. I could go on, but thank you.

Would not that, in fact, de facto recognize the Taliban Government as the legitimate Government of Afghanistan?

It is great to hear all this revisionist history.

One way to prevent a default is to get rid of the filibuster for the purpose of the debt ceiling. And my view is, you know, get rid of the filibuster anyway, but this is a perfect reason for doing it.

Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are taking our economy over the cliff. The American people, I think, are going to have eyes wide open as to what`s happening.

President Biden`s exactly right. I mean the right thing for Republicans to do is, of course, join us in lifting the debt ceiling. McConnell has been very clear in public statements over time that failure to do that would be devastating to…

We would like our Republican colleagues to do the right thing, but we are willing to do it alone.

We estimate that this year that cut child poverty in half in the United States, right?

Just let the Democrats, with 50 votes, and the Vice President lift the debt ceiling.

Let's just be clear. We are hearing Republicans this morning beat up on us for closing big loopholes in the corporate tax cut, in part to pay for an extension of tax cuts for middle-income families with kids.

Which is very different than the 2017 Trump tax giveaway to big corporations that did not have a penny to pay for it.

On the one hand, they beat up on our proposals to reform the corporate tax code to make it more fair, to make sure that every multinational corporation pays its fair share, that they cannot park their profits in the Cayman Islands and…