Patrick Leahy

The Senate Appropriations Committee is one of the great institutional pillars of the Senate.

Jim saw the promise of this bipartisan initiative, recognized it was above politics, and fought to provide meaningful funding for it.

Based on my experience with Jim on the Appropriations Committee, if confirmed, NASA can expect to have a deputy administrator who will push an agenda of common sense and cost-effective solutions.

I sent a letter, along with Senators Feinstein and Durbin, August 16th of this year, asking we make documents related to this issue public.

Watching what was a 2 percent tariff on dairy products in China get hiked up to 27 percent is very distressing for Vermont.

But the latter is exactly what this administration's trade policies have caused.

And we have not thrown Chinese foreign diplomats out of the United States as we did Cubans for virtually the same kind of attack.

Thank you very much. I want to ask about the health incidents involving U.S. personnel in Cuba and China.

Well, is Mr. Netanyahu right that Iran is only weeks away from building a nuclear weapon?

I don't dispute that, Mr. Secretary, but the Iranians have rejected the conditions. So what do we do?

Would you be horribly upset if we did as we did in the last budget to restore the cuts?

The President's fiscal year 2019 request compared to the fiscal year 2018 enacted level is global health would be cut by 23 percent, humanitarian aid would be cut by 17 percent, and security assistance would be cut by 19 percent.

This budget amounts to a tiny fraction of the Federal budget.

We live in a rapidly changing, dangerous world.

The other approach is to be a leader, one that is still the world's only superpower.

We have to lead by example. We have to stand up for our values and our principles.

Our goal was to enable the United States to remain the global leader that so many Americans and people around the world want us to be.

I support that decision.

I appreciate you saying you will support it.

I hate to think what happens if these refugees have to go somewhere else.

If we don't support UNRWA, what do we do?

I do not see anybody seeking recognition. I suggest the absence of a quorum, with the time equally divided. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moran). Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant…

I was simply going to add to what the Senator from Tennessee was saying. Senator Shelby and I have tried to keep things that are inappropriate out of the appropriations bill so that we may actually pass some appropriations bills. So I will…

Are you concerned that by pulling $1 billion in after-school funding the Department of Education would be complicating recovery for many families who depend on safe and educational care for their children in order to hold down a job or…

So we will look at gun violence in schools but not look at guns. It is an interesting concept.