This allows us to legislate much more productively, get things done in the health care space, and it is critical for respecting, in my view, the religious and ethical and moral beliefs of so many Americans.

It seems to me that more stimulus is not the way to go but instead for us to figure out how to get inflation down by expanding our economic growth.

Deficit reduction. Nobody wants to talk about it much anymore, but it is incredibly important.

As a percent of our gross domestic product (GDP), our debt continues to grow, which is very concerning to me.

I agree with former Secretary of the Treasury, Larry Summers, and many other economists who said at the time, a year ago, that adding that kind of stimulus at a time when the economy was growing... would cause inflation that would be…

The Hyde Amendment, as you know, has longstanding bipartisan agreement not to allow Federal taxpayer dollars to be used for abortions.

I was asked recently what I think is the No. 1 issue facing America. It is a tough question, and I have had a lot of issues race through my mind: inflation, the debt, workforce issues, the crisis at our southern border, the explosion of…

I think it is very important that VOA should strengthen its activity and also its contents so that one day, I hope, VOA is remembered by the North Korean people as kind of the main player who contributed a lot for the reunification of the…

Do you think that Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty should recommence its physical operations in Russia?

What are your plans and how would you empower the networks to protect freedom and democracy in countries that are increasingly, as we have heard today, under threat from Russia, from China, from other authoritarian regimes?

We appreciated Brazil voting with us at the U.N. to condemn Russia's assault on Ukraine.

I never say no to Tim Kaine.