Do they understand, believe, and support the constitution in their country? Do they understand that?

you need not make peace with your friends

we have a conditions-based strategy in South Asia. But those conditions, however, have never been spelled out.

I am glad that you support negotiations with the Taliban.

Now is the time to make peace and security our number-one goal and to implement a strategy in Afghanistan that will help us achieve it.

if we can talk to Kim Jong-un, certainly, we can talk to the Taliban.

We owe this to the women and men who serve our country in uniform, to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice fighting this war, and to those who perished on September 11, 2001, in my home city of New York.

So we need to be honest.

I think this is a huge mistake.

Fifteen thousand American troops remain on the ground there fighting America's longest war and we provide billions in assistance every year.

It's time to bring finality to something, and when we get to that point then you have certainty.

There has been widespread disappointment regardless of party or affiliation that the United States would make these concessions.

I believe there is real and genuine hope that we can move toward denuclearization.

In sum, the administration seems to be planning to escalate the war in order to break the stalemate, forcing the Taliban to the negotiating table.

It is sort of hard to believe that our Republican colleagues want to come and celebrate this tax bill when you look at the fact that the great majority of the benefits of it have flowed to the very wealthy in this country, to corporate…

It is an extremely important in an area that has been economically hit hard by the previous administration and by policies that have not looked out for folks in more rural, in areas that have a coal-based economy.

Eliminating their analysis would have zero impact on the budget.

Tax reform, tax cuts, it has started to show benefits in my district in southwest Virginia.