"Your leadership and commitment to public service is inspirational, particularly with the national security challenges facing our country."
"We have record levels of people, drugs, coming across the border."
"you guys are pulling our people north with your policies."
"I think democracy needs to be strengthened in El Salvador because I think that is critical to prosperity."
"We seem to keep adding more and more top cybersecurity positions to our Government and the org chart troubles me."
"Seeing the recent photographs of Bakhmut are heartbreaking. That part of the country has been utterly destroyed by Russia's brutal assaults."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"We should not confirm anyone as U.S. Ambassador to Russia who is untested or unqualified."