the regenerative capacity and the possibilities of stabilization for community, as well as new technologies emerging not only to feed people but to be an active player in environmental conservation

China's development strategy, frankly, is this: It is predatory lending, it is resource extraction, and it is payment to authoritarian regimes.

what you are intending to do and where you are looking at that would be helpful.

This deeper American value of care for one another and ensuring equal access, equal opportunities.

I would urge the new incoming Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security to take an audit of this.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate you holding this hearing.

I think it is a critical new architecture for, again, establishing trust and economic well-being with continuity, using the best of the private market system with a little bit of subsidy.

Listen, China is on the march. They have a hybrid capitalistic/communistic system that directly subsidizes industry.

But the heart of the matter that came out of that meeting of not being properly informed about the hold was, what are the metrics that we are using here to determine whether or not we are being successful?

I am asking my question and trying to be in solidarity with you and the responsible community of nations to continue to basically hold China accountable here.

It is basically this: predatory lending, resource extraction, and support for authoritarian methodologies in governance.

Yeah. We look forward to trying to give constructive input in the spirit of what we intended in the law.

Ultimately about human dignity and creating conditions for flourishing human life and stability.

An audit doesn't have to be a pejorative term. It actually helps us understand what we are achieving.

The idea here is to go deeper in terms of place-based strategies, fix the broken border situation.

Why don't we hold China accountable to international environmental standards in all trade agreements and other agreements?

the State Department is not representative of the American people

I completely understand that, but without a specific set of examples that we know that this is a model that is scalable for development across not only Haiti, but across other regions, I am afraid that we focus on these larger structural…

Doesn't that undermine the very intent of the law?

I would like you to just find a pathway to help us get that done.

My district in Nebraska is home to many Native American Tribes, including the Winnebago in the northeast corner of the State. And it is nestled, Madam Speaker, along the Missouri River Bottoms at the beginning of the great plains in a…

Nebraska is famous for its high-quality beef; and what wine is to France, beef is to Nebraska. Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago, a number of us took note when Microsoft founder Bill Gates proposed that the wealthiest nations move to a hundred…

A hallmark of America is that we have opened our arms and have been a just and generous nation to people who are fleeing political violence elsewhere, who have been persecuted in their native lands, and who are coming here to seek a better…

Well, let's all keep thinking critically on the question, because, again, I think we are in a transformative moment in this regard.

Are we thinking critically about how to identify the gap and close the gap?