Thank you for including in the budget the funding to the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative [AMC] to be located very likely at the University of South Carolina Aiken.

H Canyon is just so critical for our country and we want to make sure that it is properly used.

I am requesting an additional $50 million to the President's budget request to accelerate the operations of this vital asset.

I also support the President's budget request for Yucca Mountain to ensure the country has a safe and permanent repository for management of nuclear waste.

I thank Mr. Clyburn for inviting the delegation to participate in honoring the late Senator Ernest F. ``Fritz'' Hollings. Every day, when I travel across South Carolina, I am reminded of an extraordinary achievement of Senator Hollings…

I support the request of the President for $79 million for the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Project to support the dilute and dispose strategy to remove the plutonium from the site.

What is the plan to relocate the direct shipment of the half metric ton of plutonium?

And I appreciate your clarity on this.

And so the justification for the two-pronged approach is, you feel, very clear.

I can't understand why our Office of Management and Budget, controlled by my party, didn't submit a request for supplemental assistance, which I think is absolutely unacceptable.

I want to remind everybody, we have one legislative day after today before we leave, and we will not return until April the 29th.

I think it is extremely irresponsible for the Office of Management and Budget to not submit an official request for supplemental disaster assistance funding.

I'm absolutely convinced that the best future for the region is a European future.

I look forward to working together with you.

The complexities of the Middle East pose enduring challenges to U.S. interests in the region and have vexed both Republican and Democratic administrations alike.

The Trump administration has presided over the defeat of ISIS's so-called caliphate.

President Trump rightfully withdrew from the flawed Iran nuclear agreement.

U.S. sanctions have prevented Iran from delivering any oil to its Syrian client, the Assad regime, since January 2d.

Under the leadership of President Trump, the dynamics of the Middle East appear to be shifting.

The Syrian will never forget that it was the Trump administration that finally enforced the previous administration's 'red line,' striking Assad twice for using chemical weapons against civilians.

What an extraordinary country it has been and can be in the future.

I was grateful to lead the congressional delegation with the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

It is clear that the U.S. strategy to counter Hezbollah's influence in Lebanon has not been as successful as it needs to be.

I think we need to recognize that the challenge we are facing from the Kremlin today is not temporary and we should not plan as such.

My approach is a little bit different perhaps than as Dr. Farkas outlined. I think our premise should be to keep our allies as our allies.