the President's response was to separate the children from their parents, traumatizing them.

There is a definite contradiction with sending these people--many of them have been here for years legally to escape that violence--sending them back because now it is safer, yet at the same time the administration is saying what an…

I just think there should be better coordination.

We are very concerned for the people of Nicaragua who are suffering a brutal crackdown at the hands of the Ortega government.

We can't ignore that. And the damage we would do with what you are proposing to the rest of our allies would make things worse, I think, frankly.

Today's actions by the President at NATO certainly don't make the prospects of this look great, but our job here in Congress and this committee is to look at directions that we should take on our own.

I think an alliance and a free trade agreement with the European Union would be our strongest move.

Is it a mandatory participation program?

But for a few. And that is what worries me a lot about it: if it is a nationally mandated program and a mandatory participation program.

We are not interested in privatizing Social Security or the Veterans, either one.

there are people out there who are getting ready to privatize things.

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