I would hope, Mr. Cohen, that you would, in your new position, commit to working to reverse the determination that UNFPA be denied U.S. funding if you find that that decision was made wrongly.

The backsliding in Hungary is very troubling.

If confirmed, I urge each of you to keep these values at the forefront of everything you do as you represent the United States.

Congratulations, to each of you, on being nominated. And thank you for your willingness to take on these difficult positions at this time.

It is important for men to understand that women are productive and engaged members of their societies.

A policy that is supposed to result in a reduction in the number of abortions is actually going to increase the number of abortions and the number of unintended pregnancies.

I think Senator McCain's assessment that we are going to be seeing some rather big changes coming in the near future is going to be something that all of us are going to be very aware of.

I am concerned by the decision to revoke the stabilization funds for that region.

I applaud the leadership that our Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has demonstrated in traveling to the Democratic Republic of Congo in October of 2017.

I am very concerned that what we are doing in pulling back on our support for family planning, actually putting more families at risk, seeing more abortions, more maternal deaths as the result of that.

This goes to educating girls. This goes to empowering women, whether it is through small business empowerment programs or through their own maternal health.

We need to reach out to our alliances around the world and again measure our success not by the dollars we invest but by those, the numbers, that we lift out of poverty.