Our ports are the backbone to our economy. Any way to grow our shipping capacity and ensure our supply chain is strong is a smart and important investment in our economy.

So, when it comes to right whale deaths, we must focus on the real problem, based on the data and not based on conspiracies spread by the fossil fuel industry and its allies.

Now that the War is over, we must continue to be proactive in ensuring that terrorist organizations in Afghanistan never develop the capacity to threaten the American homeland again.

Going forward, we must make sure that we learn the lessons from withdrawal, that we work across agencies in an entirety-of-government approach to ensure that we maintain the capabilities necessary to meet terrorist threats wherever they…

We also need to make sure that, as we discussed in our previous round of questioning, we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan.

The reason that so many of us are concerned about domestic violence, violent extremism, is because over the last 5 years, more Americans have been killed by racially and ethnically motivated mass casualty events than by events connected…

One of the things that my understanding did not happen in advance was the Department of Defense did not share its full list of individuals that could be SIV-eligible with the Department of Homeland Security.

I want every American who served in Afghanistan to know that you made a positive difference.

the fact is that it was Donald Trump's Taliban deal that set the chaos in motion.

One of the best ways for workers to get the pay and benefits that they deserve and to raise their families and provide for them is to join a labor union. Unions have helped millions of American families join the middle class, including…

Why don't we ask the oil and gas companies that made over $300 billion of profits last year to chip in to help solve the climate crisis that they have profited from?

Do you agree that climate change is impacting the availability of water out West?

What is coming next is the request for taxpayer bailouts.

I believe members of this Committee have called climate change a hoax or a scam.

Climate change is contributing to water scarcity.

the working people in my district in Rhode Island are going to be asked to help pay to build the infrastructure to deal with these water shortages.

And do you also agree that if we don't do anything, if man-made climate change continues unabated, that the problem is likely to get worse?

Yes, I think that is an important point, that we stick with this principle that the average person not see increases under a system for fear of pricing.

I think that is an important point, that we stick with this principle that the average person not see increases under a system for fear of pricing.

Ocean pollution is of great concern to my constituents in Rhode Island. It impacts our economy.

This is yet another reason why it is important that this committee and this Congress focus on combating the rise of racially-motivated extremism here in the homeland as well.

I think especially when we look at things like access to rare earth minerals that are critical to our economy and other factors, those relationships with the global south are important.

It is clear that the Chinese Communist Party is taking a whole-of-government approach to advancing its ambitions at the expense of U.S. and democratic interests, and therefore we must take a whole-of-government approach to meeting that…

Our adversary here is not the Chinese people, it is an authoritarian and anti-democratic regime that is becoming increasingly aggressive.

Make no mistake, China is the competitor with the greatest combination of intent and capacity to threaten U.S. global leadership.