Betty McCollum: “These investments are a good start, but so much more still needs to be done.”

I rise in support of the FY2026 Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.

For America to be engaged in large scale conflict overseas for nearly a month--with no clarity for Congress or the American public about why--is shocking, unacceptable, and unprecedented in our history.

We were the first State in 2021 to put together a State task force on it.

I started working on cleanup with Tom Udall over 20 years ago.