With regard to conflict mitigation and humanitarian response, Congress provided robust funding for the humanitarian accounts in the fiscal year 2014 omnibus act, yet, the fiscal year 2015 request cuts IDA by 28 percent and MRA by 33…

I remain deeply troubled about the impact on personal freedom and public health.

I was troubled to learn that the cost of training one person on countering extreme violence can cost up to $700,000.

This is not the United States' responsibility alone. I want to repeat that.

If you could answer that thoroughly.

I hope to learn more about how the U.S. Government is diplomatically engaging African leadership to invest resources in their own people.

I hope you will provide greater insight into the administration's strategy for enhanced security cooperation with African countries, European Union, and the U.N.

So make your case for why we should continue to support the United Nations.

As we are wrapping up this hearing, given the turmoil in the world, given the public's questions about what is happening in Syria, what good is the U.N.

The great champion of this is Senator Bob Dole, who has made this his great passion.

I have made it a huge priority up in New York to try to ensure that others are paying their fair share.

On Venezuela, we have a responsibility, of course, as the United States, to speak up on behalf of those who are seeking their freedom.

We share your lack of trust. There is no way that one can look at the U.S.-Iranian relationship over the course of the last three decades and bring anything other than great skepticism and a lack of trust.

I remain concerned that the election of Rouhani and his subsequent charm offensive was nothing more than a political maneuver or a facade intended to break the unity of international sanctions.

I am going to move to another issue, but I just want to associate myself with the comments of the chair.

The reason that we have sought this waiver, and it is so critically important, is that in the event that the Palestinians seek and obtain membership in a U.N. agency, the last thing we want to do is to give them a double win.

We are fighting every day on numerous fronts to end the bias against Israel that has long pervaded the U.N. system.

We have called for a third party to get involved in mediation in some fashion, because it is in everybody's interests for this crisis to end.