David Cicilline

I am also particularly proud that in Rhode Island, we are helping to lead this effort.

Without proper access to food and nutrition, children cannot attend school, men and women cannot work, and families cannot feed their children.

I think if some of them had been a little bit more broad in their thinking, a little bit more flexible, we could have got these reforms through much earlier.

The United States Government is the leading humanitarian power in the world, and has been since World War II.

There are instances where we need a large volume of food from the United States that we can inject into the system before the food economy collapses.

The U.S. stands with Israel. That remains as true today as it was before.

The support for Israel has always been bipartisan. It is critical that it always remains bipartisan.

I would like to first associate myself with the remarks of my colleague Congresswoman Frankel, that our support of Israel has always been a bipartisan approach; it is very longstanding in this committee and this Congress and this country.

There is currently no chance for an immediate breakthrough toward a peace agreement or even the resumption of negotiations.

In my judgment, in that speech, President Abbas signaled the end of his own personal participation in efforts to achieve the two-state solution.

I strongly support recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the immediate relocation of our Embassy there.

I think it highlights the fact that this administration has so far articulated no coherent policy for dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Calls to cut off all humanitarian assistance and security assistance to the Palestinians has a very real impact on the lives of Palestinians.

None of this spending is 'stupid.'

Jerusalem is and always will be the capital of Israel.

I fear that the current administration is playing fast and loose with diplomacy.

It would be very useful to actually hear from administration officials and allow the world to hear in a very strong declarative statement...

I think this needs to be a top priority.

I have not followed through to see where we are on that.

I think we need to be clear and clear-eyed of how important and how big an issue this was and that this is something that is not acceptable.

It is quite another thing to speak in a way, and to describe Russian interference in our elections as a hoax, as fake news.

I would ask that order be maintained in this committee that the integrity of these witnesses not be impugned.

That is why I continue to raise the alarm regarding the seriousness of this situation, and why I join together with my colleague, former chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of this committee, chairman of the subcommittee, to introduce the…

This administration is leaving the door open for Russia to interfere again. This is not just horrifying, it is unacceptable.

I was glad to join Chairman Royce to introduce the Cyber Diplomacy Act.