we want to give the people a voice. We don't want to be subject to the king.

I think a lot of people were concerned by your remarks yesterday--I know I was--saying that permissionless digital assets pose a systemic risk to the financial system.

If you don't comply with the regulatory regime, you don't get to operate a financial services business, right?

I must say that I am deeply concerned by some of my colleagues who paint the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan with such broad strokes as to divorce the emergency evacuation from those choices and the full context that led up to the events…

I believe that we are deluding ourselves if we believe that this could have been as an easy operation given the deteriorating security situation and rapidly changing events on the ground that no one could have predicted.

I want to particularly thank and also commend all of you who worked to help not only our Afghan allies and partners, but also for being advocates for the rights and pathways of refugees and immigrants more broadly.

There are a lot of people who feel like there is an Operation Choke Point 2.0 going on.

I appreciate and thank the Chairman for his intention to honor that practice and allow me the autonomy to use the minority budget to best meet the unique needs that come with being in the minority.

In the post-9/11 era, diplomacy and development have regrettably not received the attention and resources they deserve. That must change.

I thank you for this opportunity to appear before the Committee with Chairman McCaul in support of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs' budget request for the 118th Congress.

I will support this amendment, but I would like to point out that the administration has provided us this exact classified briefing already...

That's not trying to come up to something where we can really work on something that's important.