"I want to acknowledge that this is our first hearing since the publication of the Commission's annual report on human rights conditions and rule of law developments in China."
"When the Chinese government seeks to mislead the world about the treatment of Chinese citizens and the government's critics, the fact-based reporting of the CECC Annual Report shines a light and helps..."
"Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'Growing Constraints on Language and Ethnic Identity in Today's China' will come to order."
"I think this is such an important area in this global competition between freedom-loving nations and autocracies that I am very concerned about the trends."
"I, frankly, think we need the bipartisan focus of this committee on making sure that we are actually delivering the resources to defend democracy at this critical moment."
"I so much applaud the set of goals you just laid out."
"Our strategy is maximum support for the Ukrainian patriots in their opposition to Russian military occupation and forces."
"We should be transitioning to offshore wind, and we should be doing it in partnership and leading the world in this effort to end this addiction to oil."
"I do agree. And the Green Party had always recognized the downsides of nuclear energy."
"As long as there is a world market for oil, Russia will be able to sell it to them."
"Time after time, the people of the Ukraine have said, we choose government by the people, not the Russian model of government by a dictator."