The goal of this administration has been reach out to our enemies, turn our back on our friends and allies.

I think pressing for democracy, human rights, a market economy and the choices for our country in a post-Castro Cuba seem to be important for the subcommittee to consider.

I support the continued embargo on Cuba, but regardless of where we stand on U.S. policy toward the island, we all want to see democracy in Cuba.

The Cuban people deserve to live in freedom.

Cuba is an enemy of the United States that has infiltrated our Government, steals classified information.

Those who try to romanticize Fidel Castro's rule of Cuba are simply fooling themselves.

I don't think we should let a moment go by without calling for the release of Alan Gross in prison.

I think this is a mistake. It tells the Cuban dictatorship that it need not change to be accepted throughout the hemisphere.

It is imperative that the Department take seriously each and every allegation of employee misconduct.

I worked for Ronald Reagan. I was his Special Assistant, and he frequently admitted that sending the Marines into Lebanon was his worst decision of his presidency, and how much he regretted it.

Ronald Reagan turned to a policy and a strategy that worked. It was called the Reagan Doctrine.

I see TPP through the prism of job creation first and foremost.

I equate it to, and my hopes are that we can do this without bombing.

I am a strong supporter of President Obama's export initiative, and I believe TPP is crucial and critical to that initiative.

If we abdicate this responsibility and opportunity, we stand a real chance of allowing our competitors to write the rules of the game.

Large, multinational corporations can go and invest behind the walls of preferential trade agreements. That really is damaging to U.S. workers.

Don't allow a line to be drawn down the middle of the Pacific.

The preeminent trading bloc in the world's fastest-growing region offers the United States considerable economic benefits.