Chris Van Hollen

I strongly encourage this Committee to support the President's nomination.

I was honored to be part of a congressional delegation along with Senator Menendez, the chairman, as well as Senator Graham and other members of the committee to South Africa to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the PEPFAR program, a…

The way to connect with so many of these young people is to meet them where they are on social media

Because of the success of the PEPFAR program, you have the younger generation of South Africans and others around the world--younger generations not seeing AIDS/HIV as a death sentence and that is a good thing.

This is a good thing for their public and a good thing for their own politics as well.

The U.S. Government, the Biden administration, has spoken out strongly when other countries attempt to pass laws that clamp down on civil society, including through NGOs.

We want to build capacity of local partners.

I just want to quote to you from a Haaretz article, as to the impact that it would have.

Let me also applaud you and the Biden administration for your help in providing human rights and other assistance to folks in the West Bank in Gaza under very, very difficult circumstances.

I fully second Senator Cardin's statement and his endorsement.

In Judge Hurson, we have somebody whose peers have repeatedly described as somebody who's deeply committed to ensuring that everybody who comes before him in the courtroom gets a just and fair hearing.

I strongly encourage this Committee to support the President's nomination.

I hope you will take a look at it because it was done at the behest of the industry, and clearly the intent was to undermine the impact of the guidance provided by the regulators.

I hope we can introduce it this week, and I know the Chairman of the Committee is interested as well, in pursuing that.

Most importantly, the democratic world must work together to help Ukrainians defeat Russian aggression, and to help the Taiwanese safeguard their democracy.

If our ultimate foreign policy goal is a world that is secure, stable, humane and safe, where the risk of war is minimal, then clearly supporting and advancing democracy should be a national security priority.

We must defend freedom in other countries because we recognize it is necessary to our existence.

We also need to invite other democracies to join the United States in stepping up their support for democracy around the world.

As Americans, we should not stand by and watch when activists and citizens are arrested and killed in their quest for human rights and basic freedoms.

Losing a square inch to autocracy outside of the U.S. is a square inch closer to autocracy inside of the U.S.

A passive United States which is content to do business with dictators... is making the world safer for human rights violators and kleptocrats.

The United Nations has allowed some of the world's most rampant human rights violators to masquerade as statesmen.

The fight against liberal democracy is also a fight against the United States, who is the principal defender and proponent of democracy on the global stage.

The United States must better leverage our democracy assistance, international diplomacy, and sanctions regimes.

I will be introducing two important pieces of legislation: first, the Protect Global Heroes Act... and second, a comprehensive countering authoritarianism bill.