I come to the floor today to make the case that we should invest $10 billion in the prevention and defeat of COVID-19 in the foreign assistance portion of this budget resolution. For so long as COVID-19 is anywhere, it can spread…

I can think of no one better to lead us out of this pandemic and into the future than the two women before us today.

She agreed that now would not be the time to withhold fiscal support from State and local governments.

I hope that you can work with us to provide flexibility [inaudible] these survivors in New Jersey.

It seems to me what you were saying in that speech about a win-win situation, you were playing a little jiu-jitsu, challenging China to promote values, such as good governance, gender equity, and the rule of law.

We must actively work to repair and strengthen that which has been undermined, including strong support for human rights and democracy.

Secretary Blinken and I have made clear that genocide has been committed against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

I hope that you and the Biden administration will remain closely engaged on is preventing the United Nations and other affiliated organizations from being used for bias attacks on Israel.

I am also concerned by the way China has sought to increase its role at the United Nations...

You have been sounding the alarm for--on this particular element for over a decade, saying, hey, if we do not show up, the rest of the world does not show up, China shows up, guess what is going to happen?

Under the Trump administration, the United States consistently advocated for removing references to sexual and reproductive health care from U.N. documents.

I believe you are superbly qualified to advance U.S. interests at the U.N.