It reflects poorly on us and makes it difficult to do ultimately what you are saying.

It is embarrassing. You know, we spend a lot of time thinking about it on our end, but for a country like that, it is almost like the ultimate sign of disrespect.

I am in favor of stronger border security. I am in favor of more personnel.

I continue to be a supporter of the Alliance for Prosperity and always look for ways to tailor it to the new threats.

abstention is better than supporting Venezuela.

it is not charity. It is in the national security and national interest of the United States to help nations build capacity

The most effective thing we can do is to take away the reasons why people are leaving these countries in the first place.

Regimes such as these habitually and routinely use negotiations... as a way to buy time to further their grip on power.

A Russian military base in Nicaragua of any capacity would be a national security threat to the United States.

100 Members of the Senate addressed the letter that I led with Senator Coons to the United Nations Secretary-General to express our deep concern about the unfair treatment of Israel at the United Nations.

I think that Argentina has a lot of positive things happening. They are a member of the Lima Group, as an example, a group of nations that have taken it upon themselves to combine and coordinate efforts to pressure Venezuela's dictatorship and to push forward.

They are accused of abuse of power and obstruction of justice in trying to avoid holding Iran responsible for the terror attack.

Creating the potential that that too would be a risk and a threat to the national security of the United States.

The migratory flows out of Venezuela due to the man-made disaster caused by President Maduro's rule is a growing problem throughout the hemisphere.

The western hemisphere is a region vital to our national security and to our economy and one increasingly contested by foreign powers who have little to no interest in democracy or human rights or the rule of law.

Let us begin with Colombia where we have a relationship that, in my view, is a poster child for what good U.S. foreign assistance can do.

the abstention is a move forward versus the outright no votes.

congratulations on picking a pretty good spot.