I did travel to Cuba in January and met with individuals at the Ministry of Health to talk about our concerns with respect to the medical missions...

This is why I get concerned about reports that suggest it's not as big of a problem or, I mean, we had this and tried to do something back in 1996...

Friends don't let friends commit human rights abuses.

What a bizarre approach. What a pro-Islamabad approach. What an approach that does not match America's interest.

To think that we are waging a war for the minds of Muslims around the world and haven't hired a single person...

if we do provide aid, we ought to provide free textbooks, so that parents don't have that burden...

I remain concerned that both last year's TIP Report and the current one gave passing grades to several nations with horrific records of government complicity in human trafficking.

the written plan is still awaiting implementation as far as I can tell.

the tierage of China, obviously, has kept them off Tier 3, which is where I and so many others who work on human rights in China believe they ought to be.

the heinous crime of gender, and it is a crime, in my opinion.

I can't even get a visa to go to Cuba.

You make a great point about human trafficking, the TIP heroes, including a group or a person fighting with trafficking, combating hereditary slavery in Mauritania.

This view about causing harms to third parties is something that the Supreme Court upheld 2 years ago by a majority of the Court in the Hobby Lobby case.

Protecting the religious liberty of some cannot be accomplished or purchased by sacrificing the rights and intent of others.

I think it needs more deliberation. But one thing I am certain of, Mr. Chairman, is that in our current day the greatest assault on the free exercise of religion is being perpetuated by those most responsible to protect it.

Nobody wants to see waste, fraud, and abuse. We are opposed on a bipartisan basis to waste, fraud, and abuse.

I just want to clarify a couple of things that we have been talking about this morning.

Just 2 weeks ago, Representative Wenstrup introduced legislation to reform the hiring process at the VA, calling the process 'lengthy and inefficient.'