I think it is enormously important for this very important department to have a focused jurisdiction.
I would like to invite you to the region. I welcome what you are doing in the Gulf region with the Secretary of HUD.
We may get back to more of these questions with regard to the camps.
There must be arrangements made for the International Community to assist people.
I guess one area of questioning I wanted to get into was the question of what can we expect in terms of credible negotia...
the most urgent humanitarian need right now in the near term, in the next, literally the next couple of months?
That can be documented, that aid is getting through?
If you don't take any action, if there is no accountability, it sends a totally opposite message, which is that you may ...
first of all, stop dropping rockets and shells on the heads of the Tamils, the very Tamils that it is claiming to be lib...
what the government is doing right now could eventually fuel further support of the antigovernment forces rather than he...
I think if he wanted these incidents to stop, he could make them stop tomorrow.
You said that access is restricted. I want to ask you if you can describe if there is a total prohibition on any humanit...
The American Embassy in Colombo is deeply concerned about these attacks on journalists and has often acted in their inte...
it is hardly a function of the world's greatest deliberative body
It is like a steam kettle. You fire it up, and it is going to come out someplace.
We have got to do better than this vote-a-rama process.
it is inevitable that votes are cast--I am right in the middle of the same procedure--where we do not know what we are v...
the way it has necessarily been conducted with the chamber full, that is the occasion when there are more Senators on th...
