David Price

But those days of when we do not recognize the strengths of those who come from different places, different lands, different experiences, and our need to embrace them is critical in terms of our children and moving forward in education.

How do we prevent just a total shutoff of any funds to address the sources of migration in Central America?

How do we do something about this unrestrained, uncontrolled declaration of emergencies?

First of all, President Trump withheld duly appropriated funds from Ukraine.

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I would appreciate your reflections on this and what the evidence so far shows because we, of course, in this country have a strong stake in human rights and in supporting democratic governments worldwide.

The COVID summit set this very ambitious goal of 70 percent of the world being vaccinated within a year

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The Biden administration has announced its determination to not only take the U.S.' seat at the table...

I appreciate your service and certainly your appearance before us today.

I hope you are right that the diplomatic presence can continue and will be effective and will offer substantial incentives for the maintenance of the gains that the Afghan people have made.

I welcome your indication of diplomatic vigilance with respect to provocations on either side and, certainly, violence, incitement from the Palestinian side, but also settlement expansion and evictions and demolitions from the Israeli…

You plan to start this assistance up again, both restoring some of what was withdrawn earlier, as I take it, and also responding to the needs from the latest conflict.

Certainly, yes, but we do commend your involvement. And there is a need to stay the course here and figure out ways to tighten the screws, if we possibly can.

I support the sanctions the Biden administration has already imposed on Burmese military officials and businesses.

There is just so much at stake in the faltering and struggling Afghan democracy surviving this period.

I am encouraged by your assurance that the aid that the previous administration stopped is now starting up again, and I encourage you to do that with respect to projects that had been approved and were receiving approval.

With respect to Gaza and the West Bank and the deeply destructive policies of the last administration, halting duly appropriated assistance funds to the West Bank and Gaza, closing the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, closing the PLO office in…

Of course, in many ways, governance is basic, basic to everything else.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and welcome, Ambassador. We are very happy to have you in this position and look forward to working with you in many, many ways.

We on this subcommittee learned the hard way in the last Congress how hard it was and how limited our tools were to deal with a summarily--and we thought unconstitutional--cutoff of aid to the West Bank and Gaza and also to the Triangle…

I have some personal knowledge of one of those programs. It involves educational work with autistic children with a school in Bethlehem.

I wonder what lessons we have learned by virtue of these freezes and now the attempt to unfreeze some of these programs.

That is very soon. All right. Well, thank you. So that work did continue.

So that third piece, the one on the Secretary's use of those funds, what is the likely timeframe on that?