Chris Van Hollen

By not engaging, by leaving the Paris Accord, by ceding leadership to China and others, we actually fell behind.

I hope you will work with our entire committee as you seek to rebuild morale at the EPA.

And someone who would defend the Capitol to his death is certainly someone who we can admire and look up to and praise his patriotism.

I am introducing a resolution, a bipartisan resolution, I hope it passes unanimously to commend and honor Officer Goodman for his quick thinking and courage.

These are men and women that we see every day protecting the Capitol, for centuries for our democracy.

I introduced the Long-Term Unemployment Elimination Act.

Will you continue working with us on a plan to ensure that these 4 million long-term unemployed workers are able to get jobs?

I joined forces with other Senators who have also been leading the charge to create jobs for disadvantaged workers.

You have been a leader in recognizing the terrible costs of long-term unemployment for both jobless workers and the overall economy.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:08 p.m., adjourned until 12 noon tomorrow. ____________________

I think it is important that we work with our European allies in the EU to look at other sanctions that can be imposed for the violation of law here, rule of law.

One of the key responsibilities I think of this portfolio you have will be to work with our European partners to counter China's use of unfair economic policies, and trade policies, to establish a set of agreed-upon rules of the road.

This is the area where our constituents most frequently interact with the State Department

We have to provide security, I hope, as you think this through, you will also find ways to make sure that our Foreign Service officers overseas can interact with the rest of the population

Congress has been enormously responsive in filling some of those gaps.

Over the past several years we have seen Vietnamese authorities increase their scrutiny over Vietnamese citizens' activities on the internet and social media

The Biden/Harris administration is committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

I was pleased to see the statements made by President Biden and others at the recent NATO summit regarding a more coordinated coherent strategy with respect to China's efforts to use its centralized economic power to export its…

Congratulations on your nomination.

I authored it together with Senator Toomey, and it was designed to close some of the loopholes in the sanctions that we have imposed on North Korea.

I would support an approach that relies both on sanctions enforcement and deterrence as well as a practical calibrated approach open to democracy.

One of the important issues that has come up with respect to the situation in the South China Sea is the importance of something many of us have been in favor of for a long time, which is ratifying the Law of the Sea Treaty.

We are seeing a disappearance of biodiversity at alarming rates around the world

We have been through a very difficult time with COVID.

I do want to go on record in agreement with my colleague, Senator Rounds, on that matter.