Americans are not fighting and dying in Ukraine, Ukrainians are. All they ask of the great country they admire and they want to emulate is that we help with equipment and training. Putin benefits from this amendment. Putin, a sociopath…

The use of consumption of illegal substances, like fentanyl, is primarily an immigrant problem.

What would imperil Colombia and, indeed, the region are the Republican proposed cuts, roughly, 30 percent for our entire State foreign operations and related programs budgets.

The source of fentanyl in the United States comes through illegal border crossings in Mexico. Is that correct?

Colombia is a democratic country with a democratically elected government and democratic institutions and process in place.

I want to thank Ms. Mace for her collaboration and cooperation on this bill.

Surely, we are pressing China. Surely, for example, it is on every agenda when a senior U.S. official, like the Secretary of State goes to visit China.

Democracy in Colombia is not in peril.

I also call on the Administration to ensure that human rights in North Korea remains at the forefront of our Indo-Pacific policy.

I think it will send the wrong message to the American people about the seriousness that this Congress takes.

If you want to see the Kim regime fail in its illegal ventures, then we must ensure that we enhance our sanctions and law enforcement activities targeting North Korea's cybercrime.

We had a hearing, and we talked about Australian military capability. And it needs--there is plenty of room for improvement.

This is the system. You will use it.

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act introduced by my friend, the ranking member, Mr. Meeks of New York, to place international pressure on elites in Haiti who have…

I've been in this Congress 15 years, and I never thought we would descend to this level or Orwellian dystopia.

Hate speech has consequences. Distortion of the truth has consequences.

Vaccination denial would have cost millions of more lives in America: 1.1 million fellow Americans are dead today because of the pandemic.

A statement submitted by the Honorable Gerry Connolly, a Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government from the State of Virginia, Jul. 20, 2023, for the record

Five are dead, including my constituent, a Capitol Hill police officer, who died the next day from the trauma and shock of that experience.

I thank the gentleman, my good friend, the former and I hope future chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, for yielding. Why are my friends on the other side of the aisle trying to punish those who show basic decency? The…

My friend from South Carolina said he was going to simplify it for the American people. I think he succeeded, so simple as to be unrecognizable.

If we are going to talk about Ukraine and Burisma, let us remember that the President of the United States, not Joe Biden, Donald J. Trump, was impeached over a phone call to the president of Ukraine wanting to get dirt on this very…

We work on individual cases of oppression. We often get notified in the late hours of the night or the early morning that there are individuals who are being persecuted or who have been arrested or wrongly detained.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the original signing of the International Religious Freedom Act, 25 years of protecting a human right that is fundamental to the history of the United States.

It would be funny to watch this bad argument fall apart if it were not such a waste of time.