What we have in Hugo Chavez is a classic bully.
Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state sitting at the crossroads of a strategic region.
The Ambassador strongly commended the initiative that you and the President took to create the office of Special Envoy f...
We cannot repeat the mistakes of 1989.
You and the President might very well try to pull together... not only the United States, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into...
I believe troop withdrawals are warranted at this stage, but our policy in Afghanistan is in need of much more than troo...
this is a very strategic situation for us, for the United States, and we have to do more to get it right.
Maintaining ties with all of these actors is important.
An entire year of civilian assistance in Afghanistan costs Americans the same amount as 10 days of military operations.
Are you going to be able to identify, as we have future hearings, which I am certain we will, be able to quantify those ...
the idea of transparency is very important, trading on exchanges, but is there any potential differentiation between the...
The end-user situation, in other words, you believe does make this differentiation so that this is not quite so onerous ...
Does this create such a burden that U.S. firms are likely to be competitively affected?
a concern regarding extraterritorial application of rules relating to the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act
The administration's ambiguity on our goals must be eliminated in order to more effectively address our national securit...
The question the President must answer is whether we can achieve the most important national security goals in Afghanist...
This is not an American problem only or an American obligation.
this committee has discussed, as you have in your opening statement, the possibility of passing to the Afghans control o...
