Chris Van Hollen

We will not hesitate to come back to Congress to seek those authorities.

President Biden will take necessary proportionate action to respond to attacks against U.S. personnel or facilities, including in Iraq.

President Biden did not need the 2002 AUMF to protect American interests in June.

I absolutely believe we must provide this and any executive with the appropriate authority for conducting counterterrorism operations.

Let us be very clear. Repealed or not, the 2002 AUMF does not authorize any military activity against Iran.

I thank the Chairman, Ranking Member Risch, for moving many nominees forward with broad bipartisan support.

I see little logic in this argument.

It simply makes no sense to keep an authorization against Iraq.

We need to see how we can use the SBA and the Minority Business Development Agency to work on identifying those groups.

I think the Chinese footprint in African markets when it comes to infrastructure is a mixed bag.

Showing an illustration on how politics could be done to serve the greater good.

I am pleased that Senator Mike Rounds and I will shortly be introducing legislation to codify the Young African Leaders Initiative.

I support fully what DFC and Export-Import Bank and others do.

The United States stands for local jobs, honest business practices, high-quality projects, environmental responsibility, and mutual prosperity.

To my colleagues, we will do 7-minute rounds. I think we will have ample opportunity and we will have more than one round of questions if people are interested.

I fully support efforts by Senator Murphy and by Representative Castro in the EAGLE Act and the Innovation and Competition Act to fix this issue.

I want to thank Senator Rounds for his leadership on that.

African citizens prefer the U.S. model of development over the Chinese one and over the European ones as well.

I hope that the hearing today will spur greater debate about ways to improve U.S. trade and investment in Africa.

Make no mistake, China will leverage their economic advantage to press their geopolitical ambitions.

The current Administration has also distinguished itself before the election by having a diaspora platform.

African citizens prefer deep democracy, accountable governance over other forms of governance.

I do think it is an important consumer protection question.

I do want to follow up, in my remaining time, with some of the issues Senator Warren raised.

I have been a long proponent of getting the Federal Reserve to move quickly to implement the FedNow system.