We must make clear that we do not seek war, and we will work to avoid it.

This should be a wake-up call to all Americans.

This will force the State Department to treat the Chinese Communist Party and their government as who they really are, not a developing nation but an economic power that must be dealt with.

Every day we should make sure people around the world know that our aid is not the debt-trap diplomacy that the CCP uses to exploit developing countries.

The U.S. should not be complicit in these abhorrent practices.

If BIS continues to mindlessly green light sensitive technology sales, the CCP has proven they will use our own inventions against us.

This should be a bipartisan bill Mr. Ranking Member.

As the CCP grows more belligerent in their behavior we must make sure that we have the proper safeguards in place to prevent future surveillance aircraft from violating our airspace.

But worse than that, they are killing Americans. You know, about, you know, a little bit over 20 years ago, a terrorist organization came over and killed about 3,000 Americans. We went and traveled 15,000 miles and waged 15 years of war to…

Mayorkas was lying when he said he had operational control of the border. And the fentanyl is killing Americans.

So this is the time for the United States, especially this Congress, to be very clear and very firm in reasserting our support for the right of the Taiwanese people to decide when and how and if they are going to manage their relationship…

I will be working very diligently on that.