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…

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I think by continuing to do what we are doing right now, which is exacting a cost on the battlefield.

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.

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