A renewal of hostilities would be disastrous for the population of the region.

The United States is pleased to announce today the publication of our National Action Plan on Preventing the Misuse of Companies and Legal Arrangements.

An Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process is the best way to end the violence and to ensure lasting stability in Afghanistan and the region.

Continue to advocate for comprehensive legislation to require identification and verification of beneficial ownership information at the time a company is formed.

We further commit to clarifying and strengthening customer due diligence requirements for U.S. financial institutions.

Private enterprise drives growth, reduces poverty, and creates jobs and prosperity for people around the world.

It is only the United States and our European allies that has consistently advocated approaches to security and to human rights that extend globally.

The threats that we do face are far more distant.

Governments have a special responsibility to make proper rules and promote good governance.

We continue to firmly believe that the elements outlined in the statements of our countries over the last four years must be the foundation of any fair and lasting settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Define beneficial owner as a natural person who, directly or indirectly, exercises substantial control over a covered legal entity.

I feel that there are some inherently government functions that even the best business models cannot address.

I have real fear that we are going to get to a place, if we just reply purely on the dollars part of it, that we're going to start cutting a lot of these programs that only government can do because it's not in business' best interest to…

I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) are necessarily absent.

Mr. President, last Saturday was the first anniversary of a very historic day. On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced he would grant temporary legal status to immigrant students who arrived in the United States as children…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 17, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. in the Mansfield Room, S-207 of the Capitol. The…

I really, personally, from all I've heard, we actually are up against Iran becoming a nuclear state.

I would like to know do you have any concerns about climate change also, and what other concerns.