Rob Portman

It is a good model to emulate.

I appreciate the fact you recognize the overlap and the potential conflicts and most importantly, again, just the notion that accountability is necessary for us to be sure we are covering our bases with regard to this growing threat that…

We seem to keep adding more and more top cybersecurity positions to our Government and the org chart troubles me.

Enormous potential often overlooked, and so for our nominees heading to African countries we need your U.S. presence there.

We have record levels of people, drugs, coming across the border.

I think democracy needs to be strengthened in El Salvador because I think that is critical to prosperity.

We need your help. I mean, this is discouraging what is going on.

You guys are pulling our people north with your policies.

We do not take advantage of these relatively pro-democracy pro-U.S. center and center right governments enough.

We have spent, I do not know, $3.6 billion in the last five years in Central America with regard to the root causes and the migration has increased, not decreased.

I think we need to continue using those tools appropriately, judiciously.

I said that the U.S. should work with our allies and partners to remove Russia from the Security Council.

I note that the NATO meeting coming up will have the heads of state from countries like South Korea and Japan and Australia and New Zealand attending.

I have concerns with the influence of Russia and China in Hungary and I would like to hear from you today about the dynamic and ways in which the United States can work to counter this.

This is a critical time... particularly difficult because it is a time of great instability, which requires U.S. leadership, in my view, on the world stage.

I hope you will be as aggressive as I saw you in Ukraine where you actually helped push the Administration policy toward a more realistic view of Russia.

I have seen how Russia weaponized energy. We need to free Europeans of malign actors like Russia.

Eight hundred and seventy million dollars a day is about what the Europeans are sending to Russia to help fund the war machine and so we need to see a change there.

Following on the $40 billion dollar package that Senator Markey and I supported to help Ukraine, I would hope that the IMF can play a bigger role, going forward, to help Ukraine get back on its feet.

This is an important day for Otto Warmbier's family, for so many people who care about the repression and the lack of information going into North Korea, and I thank my colleagues for supporting this legislation. I yield the floor…

I focus a lot on this issue of energy because that is where most of the money is coming from to fund the war machine.

With big profit margins, that enables Putin to continue to fight this war without the kinds of consequences that I would hope we could put in place.

We need to help them work.

We got to step up, and that will be a model, as you say, a template for the region.

Well, it sounds like we are not going to have enough gas to replace, as you say, this incredible dependency that they unfortunately developed with Russia.