we are legally obligated to ensure that assistance that is provided to Cuba inure to the benefit of the people and not to the regime or the military.

This displacement of families is unprecedented in Latin American history. What makes the tragedy even more painful is that it is entirely manmade.

U.S. policy has been aimed at achieving what Beijing itself has claimed to support in its own constitution.

To retreat from that now would be to signal acceptance of the logic that Chinese power must be accommodated.

I would like to just briefly open my remarks by acknowledging the enormous contributions Senator McCain has made as chairman of this committee to American focus, resolve, and credibility in the Asia-Pacific region.

The administration's 'Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy,' I believe, is a useful framework that recognizes great power competition with China and the importance of solidifying our alliances with democratic allies and partners in the…

It is somewhat politically controversial.

I will ensure the Agency maintains its focus on the promotion of democratic values and free elections.

Without democratic governance, no country will be able to succeed on its journey to self-reliance.

[W]e refuse to be spectators.

I am trying to protect the home mortgage interest deduction. I want to maintain it.

Assuming that we had the will to act on Russia and China, what level of retaliation should we expect?

You poll the psychiatrists and they're going to tell you that transgender is a disease.

I am the co-chair of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus along with my colleague Jeff Duncan from South Carolina, and we will soon be introducing the SHARE Act, the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, a compilation of a…

It is a bad bill. It allows hardworking Americans to be ripped off with impunity.

I think that there is a lot more that needs to be done to improve the SEC's enforcement ability and its scope.

I think holding people accountable--and that is the point of capitalism.

I often talk about our role in walking side by side with countries as they undergo their development journeys.

I think it is a crisis, and I think that what happens in Venezuela affects the entire hemisphere.

We are always contingency planning.

the U.S. has to lead. And a lot of people resent that. A lot of people don't like it, but it is just the truth.

It is something that causes me to stay up at night.

I mean, I guess I really wasn't fully prepared for that.

Vladimir Putin would love to be the world leader, but he will lead us in a very different direction.

There shouldn't be surprises. And so that is our commitment to you.