Nita Lowey: “The United Nations is an indispensable partner in all of this.”

I urge this Subcommittee to continue its longstanding support for critical people-to-people and peacebuilding programming.

I am delighted to yield 1 minute to the gentlemen from Illinois (Mr. Garcia).

We cannot allow a return to a familiar and unstable status quo which repeatedly increases violence and animosity while rendering a final resolution of the conflict impossible.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Schrier).