In my work with the Helsinki Commission and the OSCE, trafficking has always been a very, very high priority.

the importance of U.S. leadership, because we know we are not going to make progress internationally if the United States does not maintain a very strong position.

I just remind you that there are rumors going around here that we may be asked to vote on trade promotion authority within the next couple weeks.

the more transparency that you can show on those issues, the less chance we will see support for trafficking in labor.

What was negotiated in this? Freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Economic freedom? Freedom of assembly and protest?

I remain deeply skeptical of the Obama administration's unilateral Cuba policy shift.

If we are going to insure more people, we need physicians.

I certainly believe in the programs you have mentioned. They have been around for a while. They have not filled our need.

I want to associate myself with your remarks and those of the gentlelady from Florida, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, emphasizing my deep concern for the President's lack of transparency.

I oppose the administration strongly and vehemently, and I cannot even understand your logic here.

The CDC has done a great job.

The uninsured level is the lowest in decades: 9.5 million insured in my State of New York.

If trade and lifting the sanctions is seen as a cure-all of foreign policy for the Obama administration with regard to oppressive regimes like Cuba, then why did the administration impose more sanctions on Venezuela the very same week as…

I am vehemently opposed to that proposal, and I hope the administration would reconsider.

ACA, despite all the naysaying, has some huge successes. Health-care spending growth has decreased significantly.

I think you were surprised over the Cuba talks and you weren't brought in or read into it until late in the discussions.

Eighty percent of those enrolled said they were previously uninsured, so it is great.

Let me start with the presumption that Cuba is a violator of human rights.