It has been very helpful.

You cannot just plop someone back after serving in a very difficult situation day to day and then expect them to be calling the pizza place.

I am so interested in making sure that we reauthorize the VAWA bill and that we do it in a good way.

I am leading a bill with Senators Collins, Murkowski, and McCaskill, and I have gotten all 17 women Senators on the bill, Democrats and Republicans.

Minnesota started the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Program for the National Guard, and it is now going across the country.

But if there is no place to transition to----

It is critical that we provide resources to law enforcement to be able to respond.

Because in the long term, these kids, when they--the choice, if we do not fund the shelters, if we do not fund the transition, these kids going back in the situation are witnessing this or are subject to it.

I have a bill that I introduced with Senator Blumenthal called 'The Location Privacy Protection Act' that would criminalize the worst of these apps.

We have to have funding for these emergency shelters and transitional housing until they can get in a situation where they stand on their own and can get geographically safe.

I thank the ranking member for her work on this and the chairwoman of the subcommittee. Thank you for coming together and creating a process that allowed us to interact and work for our constituents. Recognizing the gentleman from North…

I am hopeful that our Chinese friends understand that connection, understand why this is a very deeply seeded belief for many of us in this country.

I am also thankful that you have chosen to turn that situation into a positive for others and fight for freedom.

How did Tibetans inside Tibet familiarize themselves with Lobsang Sangay? How did they know about him?

my request is the U.S. Congress or Government should support us by pushing them to have dialogue.

Do you believe that the Tibetan people clearly see that politically elected leadership as speaking for and acting in as their representatives.

An oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. Their yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

And that is partly why we are at a 6.6 percent unemployment rate.