I strongly support this measure and hope all my colleagues will do the same.

Fair, free, peaceful elections and peaceful transfers of power are to be admired everywhere in the world.

The systematic oppression of the Baha'i is continuing and it is accelerating, and this resolution puts Congress for the twentieth time since 1982 on record deploring the persecution of Iran's Baha'i community and other religious minorities.

Yes, there must be consequences for election interference, for human rights violations, and for subverting democracy, though we need to ask ourselves are sanctions always the correct answer.

Let me be clear, this resolution in no way seeks to legitimize the brutal Assad regime in Syria.

I urge support of all of these measures including the en bloc package this morning.

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H. Res. 996 offered by Mr. Engel.

That representation should reflect what our country actually looks like.

I think it is important, 2 years to the day tomorrow, that we honor a brave dissident who simply wanted reform in his home country, for which he was brutally murdered and dismembered.

H.Res.996 condemns the malign activities of Yevgeniy Prigozhin, including attempts to sow discourse in the U.S. and allied countries.

It takes a lot of courage to do what you are doing today. You are a public servant in the truest sense of the term.

I think it was retaliatory. I think you did your job, tried to keep the Agency's leadership on the straight and narrow.

Without this important tool that Congress has authorized and funded, we will have a very difficult time in this mission for greater democracy and freedom throughout the world.

For the U.S. Government to maintain its role as a global leader on internet freedom at this critical moment in history, it is urgent that it restore OTF's funding and recommit to its important work.

Millions of Americans have lost their job-based health insurance through the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and Congress has taken steps to preserve their health coverage by providing more funding to States with…

Obviously, we need to protect not dismantle the ACA. And, frankly, what the President is doing now is really a disgrace.

The report shows that we made up a phony emergency and did not do our due diligence to prevent civilians from being killed: cover it up, spin it, hide it in the classified annex, redact, redact, redact.

What this is all about is that you and Secretary Pompeo apparently think you should be able to do whatever you want and not face accountability or scrutiny of any kind.

There is at the highest levels of the State Department a fundamental misunderstanding, as far as I am concerned, of the way our government is supposed to work, of the way public service is supposed to work.

But I think it is time to move on.

The Foreign Affairs Committee has strongly objected to these tactics in the past and fully expects the resources provided by Congress to be fully utilized.

I am deeply concerned the impacts of COVID-19 will push more fragile States into conflict.

Successful diplomacy and development is cost effective.

A budget request is a lot more than numbers on a page. It is a statement of values and priorities.

Over the past several years, this Administration has attempted several rescissions and other methods of slowing down or stopping foreign assistance spending.