David Cicilline: “Thank you, Chairman Smith, for holding today's hearing on a topic that deserves this committee and Congress' full…”

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

The problem is we haven't committed to a mission. I have asked Secretary Blinken to define what he thinks the mission is.

We could say that we support a mission that this war doesn't spread to NATO.

Since the Goldman Act was enacted there has been a decline in the number of American children abducted overseas and that is a good news story.