Did that save lives?

It would be the worst poorly resourced diplomacy and development budget in a generation.

this hearing is all about confirmation bias.

What about the cost of the lack of regulation?

This is diminished, if not entirely escaped, as an issue between the Saudi government and the U.S. Government.

the President of the United States himself condemned the oil production cut last year because of its impact on inflation and gas prices here at home, and indicated, the President indicated, that there would be consequences.

The Biden Administration has and must continue to impose the Caesar sanctions.

the United States should never normalize with Syria as long as Assad remains in power.

Yes, well, I would say that the President has got it right, that we are also focused on gas prices and inflation, and we are totally in favor of developing a green economy, but we are also very much focused in the here and now, as is…

this visit with Saudi Arabia is troubling.

Does that include our blessing or any comments we might have on the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, especially given the malign activities of Iran in the region?

The current Australian military is no longer fit for purpose.

I continue to encourage the State Department and USAID efforts to maintain peace and stability in Northern Ireland.

I'm pleased that the USAID announced in December new initiatives to support democratic resiliency in Central Europe.

I want to thank the President, again, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the work it is doing around Medicare.

Medicare should be covering everyone, in my personal opinion.

I hope we can move forward with a vote on the floor on that soon.

I want you making decisions about my treatment and the drugs you prescribe that you think are necessary and efficacious...

Rep. Connolly's Statement for the Record; submitted by Rep. Connolly.

I must say, my friend from California, I don't know where this concern for whistleblowers and protecting whistleblowers was in the Ukraine episode, in that perfect phone call Donald Trump had with President Zelensky, in which a…

I must say, listening to this hearing, I don't walk away convinced of anything other than we're listening to sad tales of certain individuals about their situation.

I want to followup on the line of questioning of the ranking member and maybe go into programmatic impacts of the hostage-taking debt ceiling bill passed by the Republican majority that requires draconian if not reckless budget cuts all…

But, actually, if they do what they say and hold defense and vets harmless actually could be up to 50 percent.

You've been willing to spend political capital.

I just want to point out the hypocrisy that a party that talks about controlling disease and rants and rails about the money we have to spend combating these diseases has a wide open border policy that allows diseases into our own country…