I appreciate this very informative hearing that you have organized and I want to thank all of our witnesses as well.

I have 11 en bloc motions at the desk, and I ask that they be read and considered en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The senior assistant legislative clerk will report the motions en bloc. The senior…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the motions en bloc. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant bill clerk…

I am pleased to be joined by a host of my colleagues. The motions we are proposing are very simple and should attract wide support. Senators on both sides have said this must be a bipartisan process, but so far, it isn't. Not once did any…

I appreciate your cognizance of your jurisdiction, and also, and importantly, the role of the Congress in overseeing this and dealing with it.

on behalf of Senator Scott of South Carolina and myself, I would like to submit a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Tennessee submits a question. The question is for counsel for the former President from…

I am pleased to join the senior Senator from Oklahoma as the lead cosponsor of this amendment in support of our shared objective, maintaining the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, the eternal and the indivisible capital of the Jewish State of…

We will take steps to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy.

the fact remains that Nicolas Maduro is a brutal dictator whose regime has committed, from my perspective, crimes against humanity.

I think it has tremendous potential.

We are in a period right now where China is ramping up its nuclear weapons capability.

The purpose of the Act is to ensure congressional review, not to find weasel words or ways to get out of complying with it.

the Maduro regime's goal is to delay, to deflect, to distract.

Coyotes are taking these messages and marketing them to very vulnerable people.

I appreciate your acknowledgement of the success of the Abraham Accords.

I want to commend the president, President Biden, for providing TPS for Venezuelans.

To the extent that women flourish in a nation their economies flourish, their democracies flourish, and we tend to see more stability.

America has done a great job, in the current administration and the administration that preceded it, in dealing with the COVID-19 situation, but there is no vaccine for the addiction to fentanyl that we are experiencing at the hands of…

My best military advice would be not adopt a no-first-use policy.

Competition with China is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century for the United States.

I very much appreciate your efforts here and I look forward to working with you, should you be confirmed, in pushing back against what I would call a weapon of mass destruction that is being unleashed against our population here.

the protagonists of this need to be the Venezuelan people and the Venezuelan opposition, led by interim President Guaido.

I think most of the region is united behind the vision of a region that is peaceful, stable, where countries large and small play by the rules, large countries do not bully small countries.

This has become the most urgent crisis in America from a national security standpoint, from an economic security standpoint, from a humanitarian standpoint.

I think the Quad is a vitally important mechanism.