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.

I hope that you will strongly support the aid package from Congress to continue our help for all the reasons you just stated, that this is a crucial time in Ukraine and to keep pressure on Russia.

It is my honor to be here to introduce a fellow Ohioan, Ambassador Lynne Tracy, to be the nominee for Russia.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Your leadership and commitment to public service is inspirational, particularly with the national security challenges facing our country.

I think government has an important, but limited, role in people's lives and people need to be able to interact with it efficiently.

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 believe our sanctions are not having the impact that we had intended.

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

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

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…

It is a good model to emulate.

I want to hear what we are going to do to try to help Estonia even more to push back on again the threats that they are facing, including cyber threats.

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.

you guys are pulling our people north with your policies.

I hope you will, should you be confirmed--I think you will be--once you are there that you will dig into this issue and give us advice as to how those sanctions can be effectively tightened.

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.

Seeing the recent photographs of Bakhmut are heartbreaking. That part of the country has been utterly destroyed by Russia's brutal assaults.

We should not confirm anyone as U.S. Ambassador to Russia who is untested or unqualified.

I come to the floor again today to update people on what is happening in Ukraine as Russia continues its illegal, unprovoked, and brutal assault on that country and talk more about what we can do here in the Congress and as Americans to…