Chris Van Hollen

I hope that will be a major focus for you upon your confirmation?

The nominations hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order.

Secretary Blinken announced these visa sanctions, visa restrictions, earlier this week on those who are impeding peace in the Anglophone regions

I represent a very active and engaged and terrific Cameroonian-American constituency in the state of Maryland

I do believe that providing humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian population... is in the U.S. interest.

I support an immediate ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

I think it is important the United States continues to support that effort as well as the World Food Programme.

We have a continued al-Shabaab presence in Somalia. We also have the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel from Somalia.

I am focused now on post-conflict humanitarian relief to millions of people who have nothing to do with the conflict in Gaza.

We also know that Israel has the right to self-defense.

I see the U.S. and Algeria having a lot of areas of agreement: regional stability in the Maghreb...

I do want to begin by giving a special salute and shout out to my colleague, Senator Mike Rounds.

I urge the committee to support her nomination.

The United States recognizes a single Somalia, which includes Somaliland.

President Biden has called for a ceasefire in that conflict and we, the United States, are working with international relief agencies...

We all know that Hamas is a terrorist organization that controls Gaza.

President Biden is determined to renew American engagement around the world and leadership in international organizations.

I think Power Africa has been a success.

I was pleased to see that President Biden chose to extend the New START agreement by five years.

NATO allies have to stand for freedom, democracy, and governments that serve their people.

If that resistance manifests in delays that will turn into an unequivocal win for Putin, a loss for Europe, and a loss for America.

I was pleased to see President Biden impose sanctions yesterday and today on Russia given Putin's continuing aggression.

It makes zero sense to me that a NATO ally is buying new Russian weapons systems.

It includes a significant increase in the budget for AID, among other things, and part of the idea is also to combat what Senator Hagerty was just discussing.

Senator Murphy and I have proposed a new foreign policy budget to really meet the needs of this century in the year 2021.