We must be using Russia's own money now, not just to rebuild destroyed homes after the war ends, but to be saving the lives of people who live in them now.

A country that has shown contempt for international law to the point where its president has been indicted as a war criminal should not enjoy the benefit of international legal protections.

Neither the free world nor Ukraine can afford further delays.

We need to get the money there as quickly as possible, and continue the war, and supply the Ukrainians with the military that they need to win this war.

Russia is a horrible representative of the international community and where the international community stands in 2023 and 2024.

War criminal Putin has committed murderous atrocities against Ukrainians, including torture, systematic rape, and indiscriminate bombing of civilians.

What Putin is doing in destroying the country of Ukraine is an attempt to genocide.

We are here to provide that leadership.

Well, I do not think any one of us on the panel have--and we probably should have a better perspective on this than you might, but I am going to ask you the question. That is the authority I have, to ask the question. Why in the hell are…

I am grateful to be an original co-sponsor of the REPO--R-E-P-O--Act, which would enable the president to confiscate Russian sovereign assets.

I think what Russia is doing is a violation of international law and needs to be condemned at every opportunity possible.

Janet Yellen said in October that she supports using some of the Russian--some of the income generated by the immobilized Russian assets to help Ukraine.