Indeed, this legislation is not prescriptive. It is simply, 'Tell us what you are doing.'

I have to say it was more like a letter to Santa Claus than a policy document.

We cannot--we cannot--continue to overlook these countries that are right in our backyard.

The rhetoric coming out of the administration is not helpful at all.

I don't think that it is helpful that we are going to be cutting the State Department's budget.

Will you, as Secretary of State, do what so many other Secretaries have not and recognize the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against its Armenian citizens during World War I? Yes or no.

We cannot allow another outbreak to go unchecked because the White House considers arbitrary budget cuts to be good politics.

You strongly criticized the Obama administration for not including issues like human rights in the nuclear deal with Iran.

This is, potentially, a violation of laws governing State Department personnel.

The reason we fight pandemic overseas is so we don't have to fight them here at home.

It's, frankly, insulting that the administration would send us another request like this when we rejected it last year.

The administration's first priority was an ill-conceived reorganization effort.

It also strikes at the idea that politics should stop at the water's edge.

Have you raised your concerns with the Government of Saudi Arabia about the recent arrests of activists, particularly, women activists?

If in fact the President doesn't divest himself of his business interests, how will you ensure that this body, the Congress of the United States, that you are not engaging on matters of foreign policy and national security, where the…

That's a very disappointing answer, with all due respect.

Your administration has been in office for 15 months. They have done nothing to hold Iran accountable on any of this malign activity.

Will it be part of the deal? Do you have a commitment from the Kim regime?