there is no indication that the administration has raised the issues that Senator Young has talked about.

During the continuing resolution, the funding, we worked in a bipartisan way to provide about $900 million more to adjust famines.

I believe that U.S. leadership, in whatever shape or form it comes, is key and can make a difference, yes.

I am hopeful that the President of the United States and other leaders of the United States Government will weigh in...

Our current executive branch, the Trump administration, has cut all funding to UNFPA, drastically reducing the assistance available for responding to women in these situations.

Why would we not raise that with an ally?

Conflict prevents the delivery of food assistance at the scale necessary to meet the need, especially if the warring parties attempt to use starvation as a weapon.

It is, therefore, essential that the hearing today address not only the root causes that drive the suffering but also the multilateral actions the international community can take to address it.

In these four countries, with so many children, severely, acutely malnourished, it is not just a moral outrage.

To have this happen by accident for 16 months in a row is less than 1 out of 1 trillion times 1 trillion. In other words, there is nothing accidental about this.

I strongly believe, and we at the ICRC strongly believe that states, especially those that are directly or indirectly involved, and supporting partners, can exercise their leverage over the warring parties on the ground.

should we be asking our President to weigh in directly with the King of Saudi Arabia to get access for aid into Yemen?

the massive cuts proposed in President Trump's FY 2018 budget, particularly regarding support for international organizations involved in humanitarian response, for the International Disaster Assistance (IDA) account and for the Migration…

Was that a diplomatic way of saying that we could use better partnership from those two nations?

I think continued efforts on understanding these conflicts and what is going on...

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Thomas Adamson, be granted privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

the most important three words in our Constitution are the first three words: ``We the People.'' Our Founders chose to write those words in supersized font so that we could, from some distance away, know exactly what the mission statement…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Gloria Ramirez, be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

let's revisit recent history. Four weeks ago, my Republican colleagues were meeting secretly in this building, in a hallway that the press was not allowed in because they didn't want to have the press see them sneaking in and sneaking out…

I would like to acknowledge Chief Warren Brainard of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Suislaw Indians.

climate disruption is the seminal challenge of our generation. It affects everything from our farming to our fishing to our forestry. We see the impact in disappearing glaciers, shrinking ice sheets, melting permafrost, dying coral reefs…

climate change should always be on the table as one of the factors we consider.

It is an ancient failure on our part to fulfill our end of the bargain, and I just encourage every possible effort for us to keep moving forward with the effort.

I just thought I would toss that to you.

It is a very complicated set of issues including the removal of dams on the river that do not produce much power.