If the administration is not serious enough to take their bacon away then what are we all sitting around here talking ab...
I ask for punitive measures up to and including sanctions under the Goldman Act.
Sanctions represent a real expenditure of political capital on behalf of the United States.
But the sad reality is that our children are simply not important enough for the American Government.
I once told a high ranking State Department official that our children could be returned in 1 year.
It will only be constant and intense foreign pressure that will bring about the required changes in family law.
We could solve corporate espionage tomorrow. We could solve kidnapped children tomorrow, in a month--one Executive order...
the Goldman Act was passed by Congress was to give you additional tools beyond that soft diplomacy
As long as they are sending billions of dollars in here, making a living on our economy, and we are never doing--we are ...
I don't like to employ sanctions. But there is a number of other tools that the Goldman Act allows the State Department ...
I made a living in soft diplomacy so I understand the benefits of soft diplomacy but I also understand when it doesn't w...
I will bring this back to the Secretary in the ongoing discussions Senator Tester and I are having with them.
I want to start out by thanking Ranking Member Blumenthal and Senator Brown for some opportunities to work with you all.
I wanted to use this as an opportunity to try and figure out how we begin to weave what I think are good proposals.
Given the interconnectedness of our maritime security and food aid programs, undermining one ultimately jeopardizes both...
I strongly urge you to reject the dangerous arguments made by those seeking an end to in-kind food aid and cargo prefere...
I am particularly concerned by the fact that they attempted to achieve this by driving a wedge between the agriculture a...
This joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture... will come to order.
