"I had the opportunity to visit Honduras when the elections were happening in 2017."
"Thank you, and I hope you all will indulge me because I know that many of the people who are watching this testimony are like me."
"It could very well have that effect."
"I find it a little disturbing that we are having this conversation after 11 days of the shooting in New Zealand."
"I believe that insisting on human rights standards around the world is not just a moral responsibility but a national security imperative."
"In America, one out of five children struggle with hunger, and for many of these children, the free lunch and breakfast that they get in school is often the only meal they get to have."
"How can we expect them to reach their full potential?"
"We should care about every single child arriving in that school having the resources that they need."
"Yet the budget that you are proposing, and this Administration and Trump is proposing, makes a $1.7 billion cut from school meals over the next 10 years."
"My understanding is that we should care about every single child arriving in that school having the resources that they need to be able to get educated and be fully present."
"I often say that budgets are a value statement, as you have many times in this Committee, and you said that we are committed to having promises kept."