Adam Smith

We’re going to help Ukraine in every way we can. We’re going to not go to war with Russia and start World War III. That’s the balance we have to strike.

If Putin is able to succeed in this, you know, the devastation that Ukraine will experience will be even greater than it is right now.

I completely support a free press and I do not think the government should restrict it that at all. I think it’s unbelievably irresponsible for the media to be making these reports.

I think we’ve reacted very quickly. There’s more to be done, happy might be an overstatement. There’s really nothing happy about this situation.

My constituents asked me about Ukraine all the time. I have a large Ukrainian population in my district but even constituents who aren’t Ukrainian this is something that has drawn the attention.

As President Biden made clear, we will defend every inch of NATO territory, if required.

Mr. Chairman, you have heard me say many times we need resources matched to strategy, and strategy matched to policy, and policy matched to the will of the American people.

With help from Congress, we have been able to rush security assistance to Ukraine to help the Ukrainian people defend their lives and their country and their freedom.

Russia has struggled far greater than just about anybody expected.

Our ability and our allies' ability to get aid and weapons to Ukraine has been crucial

We see the world that we do not want, unquestionably.

Vladimir Putin's brutal and violent decision to violate the fundamental laws of the world and invade Ukraine in the way that he has.

I have seen first-hand the impacts of aviation noise and emissions on the environment, health, and quality of life of these communities.

We are providing some intelligence. We're not providing the kind of real-time targeting because that, you know, steps over the line that makes us participate in the war.

Now is not the time for equivocation. This administration needs to stand up to Putin.

My colleagues and I sounded the alarm that Ukraine needed more lethal aid months ago.

I think the Biden administration has done an excellent job in the year-plus that they've been in office of reaching out to allies and trying to build those partnerships.

The way to meet those threats is through allies and partnerships, and through a rules-based international order.

In our efforts to stop Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine, to make sure that Putin does not succeed in this, we could not possibly do it on our own.

The United States needs to continue sanctioning the Taliban but needs to do so in a thoughtful and targeted manner.

A free and democratic Afghanistan that I committed my life to build, the Afghanistan that me and my generation, and the Gen Z'ers that followed us, love, and cherish, that Afghanistan still exists.

I certainly do not think so.

Multilateralism is critical for successful diplomacy in almost all cases involving complex international problems.

I urge the Members of this Committee to support legislation preventing Taliban recognition.

I think OFAC needs to issue additional general licenses authorizing NGO programs that go beyond basic human needs.