They are taking that money to train and equip young men and women who every single day on the front line are risking their lives and giving their lives for the cause of freedom.

A lot of us are in touch with Ukraine's own anti-corruption campaigners.

But I do have concern with this phrase, and the phrase is blank check. Blank check means we're giving Ukraine billions of dollars, and they can go use it for whatever they want; we do not ask any questions.

The era of writing blank checks, I think, is over, and you're going to see an era of transparency and accountability.

We owe Marc Fogel and his family a real determination, not tomorrow or next week but now.

In fact, Ukraine is winning this fight, and we need to give them everything they need to win this.

It will be critical for Congress to closely examine the Administration's failure of deterrence leading up to February 24th so that it cannot be repeated in the future.

I believe this Administration was putting a lot of restrictions on that investment as it has to be certain types of energy and has to have all sorts of restrictions.

Promoting two-way trade and investment with African nations and creating economic opportunity must be a top priority.

Your positive energy is infectious. And we have worked on many initiatives related to Africa together that have, I think, made a difference.

Ensuring strong engagement with our African partners has been a bipartisan priority.

We cannot allow the CCP and Russia to exert their malign influence over the continent.