Chris Van Hollen

What are your plans to try to re-staff the National Park Service?

Thank you. Yes. I think the goals of this program are consistent with the Administration's move to ensure that we are conserving these spaces for Americans.

We look forward to working with you.

I want to thank you for your leadership, and support, and assistance from the National Park Service.

When I talk to transit workers, you hear often terrible stories about the kind of abuse that they have to take.

I do not want to go into all the details, but I just would ask you for a commitment that your office work with us to identify the maximum possibilities to move that project forward.

Well, thank you, and thank you for holding people's feet to the fire in terms of the deadlines.

I was very pleased that a piece of legislation that I introduced to strengthen the safety of transit workers, along with passengers, was passed.

I want to start by associating myself with the comments made by Senator Warner with respect to the Washington Metro system.

I guess I want to back that up, because what we have seen over time is a lot of the coup leaders, in many cases, are organizations, individuals that we have had a previous relationship with.

Congresswoman Sara Jacobs and I today are introducing legislation that would--it is called the Upholding Human Rights Abroad Act.

I have long been concerned that we do not strike the adequate balance between going after terrorists and investing in long-term stability in terms of democracy and development.

I think some of us believe that, ultimately, this price cap needs to be backed up with the threat of sanctions.

Congratulations on the nomination, and my colleagues have covered a lot of territory, including your effort--your future effort to help gain the release of unjustly detained Americans and political prisoners there.

I think it is a very important move by the G-7, the United States, our allies.

I hope you will, at least with respect to non-Russian Government officials, push the boundaries of talking to other folks.

I am absolutely committed to ensuring that the interagency has the full picture of what is happening in Cyprus.

We are committed to supporting independent Russian journalism and the access of Russian people to fair and independent media.

I look forward to supporting all of your nominations.

Latvia has become an important haven for Russian journalists who are fleeing persecution in Russia.

I agree that all of the countries where you are going to be the United States representatives or Ambassadors to have been firm in standing up against Putin's aggression and support in Ukraine.

I think we need to support the EU decision to not continue to import Russian oil.

We have been working with the Bulgarians to look at ways that they can reduce this.

I wish we saw the same level of outrage back in the day when the Trump administration was withholding badly needed weapons to Ukraine in order to get the Ukrainian Government the time to come up and manufacture dirt on the Biden family.

I think also some of our programming, which tries to address root causes of conflict, which can be traced to exploitation of minerals in a nonsustainable and a nonaccountable, nontransparent way, if we can address that, that helps some of…