I am grateful for Chairman Engel's leadership on the Foreign Affairs Committee. I look forward to continue working with Chairman Engel to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security this Congress. I'd also like to thank my colleague…

I thank Ranking Member Engel and Chairman Royce for all of their help on this piece of legislation. I would also like to thank my colleague from New York, Elise Stefanik, for introducing this resolution with me, which honors the…

The bills and resolutions considered today on Australia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Liberia, Mexico, Iran, global fragility, Counterterrorism in West Africa, organ trafficking, and HIV/AIDS address important issues in the world.

I'd first like to thank the committee for considering my resolution that I authored with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York on supporting greater cooperation on space research.

I was glad to see yesterday the announcement about the United States committing another $185 million to help combat this humanitarian tragedy.

I am glad that we are having this hearing. That we are talking about it for what it is, a health crisis.

On behalf of many Americans, enough--enough of cruelty disguised as border security, enough of inflicting pain on children to make their parents stay away, enough of picking on the weak to show that you are strong. The people in this…

I thank Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, subcommittee Ranking Member Sherman, also my colleague from Texas and the coauthor, Representative McCaul. I thank them for all of their hard work on this. Every day, diplomats work to advance…

I am told by my grandmother--I was told back then that her mother died of tuberculosis in Mexico around 1922--early 1920, and I notice that there has been about a 26 percent cut in the President's budget request in 2018 from 2017.

The situation in Nicaragua is dire. And I appreciate the President and the administration's actions in designating certain individuals in Nicaragua complicit in violence against civilians under the Global Magnitsky Act.

Many Americans and many around the world have been shocked by the Trump administration's use of family separation.

I think it is important, when we think about helping these countries get back on their feet, to make sure that we have an organization that is trying to root out corruption and really restore the rule of law.