David Cicilline

I apologize to you for being in the crosshairs of an obviously politicized effort to attack the Biden Administration.

I commend you for what you've done there.

What I am wondering is if you have recommendations on the kinds of things that we might be suggesting to our State Department.

I am optimistic about the opportunity that lies ahead to build on these historic achievements.

The historic Abraham Accords are one of the most consequential diplomatic achievements of my lifetime and a success of the Donald Trump Administration.

There's good reason to believe from recent reports from the Food and Drug Administration they may actually make it available over the counter this coming month of March.

I think it's very important that drugs that block or are antidotes to the opioid-related overdose deaths are made readily available.

I promise, we will have action, not inaction.

Doing it even harder and causing even more people to be imprisoned, and damaging relationships with even more countries is still not going to work.

I think there is broad and maybe universal support on this Committee to do exactly what this bill attempts to do.

What does that mean? Because recommendation algorithms is not a term of art. It is not defined in the bill.

This appears to be a, maybe the broadest sanction and position I've ever seen and maybe ever imposed in history.

I would like to again thank Representative Castro and Young Kim for their leadership on this issue.

The U.S.-ASEAN comprehensive strategic relationship is critical to enabling the United States and ASEAN to cooperate on a number of regional issues.

I strongly support Representative Castro's H.R. 406, Partner with ASEAN Act, and this en bloc package and urge my colleagues to do the same.

I think it is very clear that members of this committee on both sides of the aisle recognize that the People's Republic of China's continued economic coercion and aggression in the Indo-Pacific presents serious challenges to our national…

Most concerning is that the bill effectively expands the policy that's of Title 42 without any exceptions for those with bona fide asylum claims, unaccompanied children, victims of torture, victims of trafficking.

We urge you to vote against H.R. 29, as well as any subsequent legislative proposals that would unjustly deprive vulnerable peoples the legal right to seek humanitarian protection in the United States.

Let's stop demonizing the immigrant who comes and asks for help.

They want the American people to be scared. They want us to feel threatened.

So, yes, there is a crisis at the border. It is not the one that the Republican leadership is shouting about.

We cannot and should not do that.

This is not only a moral failing to asylum seekers fleeing persecution. It also defies existing laws.

The House Republican border security plan is one of the most extreme stances this body has seen on immigration in recent history.

Now, while Republicans resort to political stunts at the border and theatrical hearings like this one, Democrats stand ready to fix a broken immigration system.