Tom Malinowski

You are afraid of them in a way that you are not afraid of critics in the United States.

I find that quite disturbing.

Are you aware that the Chinese government denies those documents to Uyghurs and Tibetans, and that they are therefore unable to actually stay at your accommodations in Beijing for these Games?

If the state prohibited Jewish Americans from staying in your properties, would you still run a business in that jurisdiction?

I see hypocrisy between these actions.

So I am still not convinced this market in cryptocurrency should even exist, but let's talk about regulation for a moment.

I think if we regulated it, it wouldn't be crypto anymore, and so what would be the point?

I think we have to ask, what is the good, what is the positive social value of this phenomenon that is also creating all of this harm?

I think it is an abstraction, whereas ransomware attacks are not an abstraction. They are hurting people every single day.

Most ransomware payments would be over $10,000, just in the current scheme of things, so it would probably capture a significant share of, if not all, ransomware payments.

cryptocurrencies are being used right now for all kinds of very nefarious purposes--to purchase illicit goods, drugs, guns; to provide material support to terrorist organizations; to enable the ransom payments that are fueling arguably the…

Freedom has been subverted for generations in Cuba but not for 1 day longer, if the Cuban people have anything to say about it.

We must not undermine the efforts of Cuba's pro-democracy anti-socialist movement.

The Castros are both self-serving tyrants and their puppet successor, Mr. Diaz-Canel, is cut from the same oppressive communist cloth.

The Cuban people, as you've mentioned, are shouting 'Libertad.' They're waving the American flag. They're standing for freedom.

The INVEST in America Act will put millions of Americans to work building 21st century infrastructure that will make us again the envy of the world. This is not Eisenhower 7.0, as the chairman often reminds us. Of course, we are going to…

I mean, honestly, there is nothing to prevent the effects of climate change, within 10 or 20 years, like the entire Federal budget will be resiliency.

I strongly support the bill, but I think it is important for all of us and every American to understand that, even with the very generous amounts that we will hopefully be appropriating this year, there will still be deep, deep needs in…

So obviously, for a lot of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, the war in Ukraine has brought significant economic challenges, food and security, for example, countries like Egypt and Libya, Yemen, Tunisia.

Doesn't this raise the question of who is the superpower in this relationship, right, are we leveraging them or are they able to leverage us?

Well, unfortunately, it is time to close this hearing. I think, often, we are happy to end long hearings, but this one--I am sure I speak for all the Members--was particularly powerful and affecting for us all.

Infrastructure funds invest in high-speed rail systems all over the world for construction, but there are a number of high-speed rail systems that actually operate at a profit.

I want to start by reinforcing the point that Chairman DeFazio made that demand would follow supply for efficient high-speed rail.

There is no better reason to do it rather than to create opportunity to make our environment cleaner and healthier and to save lives.

If we had better, faster train service, absolutely the demand would follow, and I think that's true in many parts of the country.