Patrick Leahy actually said...

I know your job is to defend the administration's budget, but putting that aside, given China's expanding influence, the spread of extremism...

Unfortunately, those positive trends have been eclipsed by a rise in authoritarianism.

I hope this Committee will stay united, as it was in fiscal year 2018, in opposing a return to isolationism and the abandonment of our count...

If all goes to hell in a hand basket in any number of these countries, we are going to spend a great deal more as American taxpayers to try ...