If you ensure that from the moment of conception to that second birthday, both mother and child have food and supplementation, it mitigates maternal mortality and morbidity.

Maternal mortality, which I take a backseat to no one in trying to stop it every time we can.

One of the biggest takeaways from the NIH-funded projects, the peer-reviewed studies found, that when a woman gets folic acid in the first month of her pregnancy, the incidence of autism drops by 40 percent.

They are at it again. Corporate lobbyists and billionaires are spending whatever it takes to get their way in this town and avoid paying their fair share in taxes. Meanwhile, working people who play by the rules are getting crushed by…

The idea is not to get rid of the peacekeeping mission, but to make it more effective.

They should do much more to support local peacebuilding initiatives.

The way the United Nations peacekeeping mission works is like what we were talking about with USAID.

I think sanctions are needed. If you don't use them, it becomes something in the toolbox that dictators... turn around and say, no worry here.

Thank you, Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, and Chairman Yoho, and Ranking Member Deutch, and Ranking Member Sherman, for holding this joint subcommittee hearing.

We should have this Congress attack foreign policy and do what is right, rather than relying on a Congress when I was here.

the entire region, with the exception of Israel, is a very harsh and even dangerous climate for those who seek to protect the rights of LGBT individuals.

I think everyone would agree that criticism of Israel and policies of Israel and disagreement is not anti-Semitic as a principle.

Ranking Member Keating, what I referred to was specifically and primarily Russia's behavior toward its neighbors.

I fear that the lack of leadership we have from this administration on these issues leaves American national security interests exposed to the chaos and uncertainty that authoritarianism breeds.

this administration has also disappointingly failed to appoint an envoy of the office to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.

We talk about democracy-building and so forth. There was a lot of rationalizing about the coup...

Thank you, Chairman Ros-Lehtinen and Ranking Member Deutch, for calling this important and very timely hearing today.

this spike in anti-Semitism is something which should be of grave concern to all of us.

Because if those neighboring states would be able to develop into successful democracies... why should the Russian population itself tolerate continuing to live under those circumstances.

I think, unfortunately, the previous administration opened the door... for Russia to take a position in the Middle East...

Counterterrorism cooperation is something much deeper. It is about intelligence sharing, actual joint operations...

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It is not so difficult to do--courts do this all the time.

The current economic sanction so far is not enough. So we should increase more targeted sanctions.