Rob Portman

We are now in the 106th day of the war against Ukraine.

All of us must condemn these hateful acts, I think you have properly said that we have a role in simply speaking up more and more forcefully.

Mob rule is not going to prevail here.

We have seen President Putin do this in Ukraine. He is doing it as we talk.

I think it is difficult for us to get them to help us in terms of isolating him and certainly not developing a normal relationship with him.

Any venture, any military operation, across the border into northern Syria... puts the civilian population in the crosshairs.

Food insecurity is all the greater because of Putin's brutal war on Ukraine.

Russia is making their work much harder.

I think it is really important that we have these reforms to protect these cloud-based systems.

My hope is that this legislation can pass to help protect the cloud-based services but also we can expand the number of companies that are innovative technology companies that will provide that service.

We have to do what we can do to protect American jobs, and that starts by ensuring that tax dollars spent on American government procurement is not used to create jobs overseas when it can be used to create jobs here.

It is totally unacceptable for the U.S. Government to release unaccompanied kids, who are, by definition, much more vulnerable to trafficking, to unrelated sponsors and not to do more follow-up.

There is a deep concern expressed by just about every member of this panel, Democrat and Republican, about the lack of a plan.

I will tell you what it is. It is very simple. It is the number of sponsors out there, the number of sponsors who have been denied.

We provided the funding for you back in 2019 to get to that number of 40 percent, at least, of cars, 70 percent of trucks, and we should provide more.

There is just so much to go over.

The asylum process is totally broken and it acts as a magnet to draw people to the border.

Title 42 is not sustainable. I get that. It is a public health authority. It is not meant to be an immigration law.

We are prepared to allow whoever comes to the country, they can afford access to our asylum system if they have a right to do so.

I think we have an oversight responsibility.

The alternative to Title 42 is that they are going to do what they cannot do now, because of Title 42, which is apply for asylum.

I appreciate your holding this hearing on the Southwest Border, which clearly is in a crisis situation now.

The reality is we have an asylum system that is broken, and until we fix that it is not going to be solvable post-Title 42.

This year so far, 2022, it is unprecedented. It is not a 15-year high. It is an historic high.

I think that makes a lot of sense. It is going to be expensive but it absolutely crucial to me that the last people coming in are the first people who are told, we understand that your country has issues and that the economics are a real…