I think it is unwarranted.

Thank you again for your specific recommendation about Clean Water Act fines related to the event. I just want to underscore, particularly for my colleagues, you all specifically recommended that we legislate and dedicate 80 percent of the…

the industry is developing impressive new well containment technologies and there are new standards being established within the industry itself.

We believe it is very important to see this as an opportunity to do something that has been long needed.

I look forward to hearing their vision for advancing U.S. interests and policy priorities.

Senator Isakson and I held a hearing just after the debt ceiling vote and as many Members of the Congress were going home for work period.

I want to commend the administration for continuing to stay on this issue, but I know many of us share a grave concern about the speed with which the Iranians have moved.

Your questions always add breadth and depth to the questioning we are able to conduct.

If I am confirmed, I would look forward to further honing and refining not only with Mali but with my colleagues in the region about how we might best support those efforts to ensure that AQIM does not become the much more dangerous thing…

One of the things I am trying to urge that we take greater advantage of is the opportunity posed by a large African diaspora community in the United States which often is involved not just in remittances but also in possible…

I believe it is very critical that we encourage strongly the partners to return to the negotiating table.

Negotiations are really critical and I think we need to continue to support the AU High-Level Implementation Panel.

I do not know what the right solution is, but I got to tell you this is so pervasive and such a big problem.

I think it is very challenging service on which you embark.

I think, if I could, I'd like to start by focusing on that recent experience in Islamabad and your understanding of the difficulties of sort of the rough and tumble of a relatively new democracy.

I'm very concerned about what I read in the backgrounder about narco-trafficking and emerging criminality.

If confirmed, one of my top priorities would be working with the Rwandan Government to ensure that both local and international NGOs and the media are allowed to operate freely.

I'll just associate myself with Senator Casey's expressed concerns about the Israeli-Egyptian relationship, the security at the border, the relationship with Hamas, recent incidents in terms of bombing the gas pipeline, and security is…