Jeff Flake actually said...

Senator Booker and I are holding this hearing to demonstrate the interest of the United States in helping Somalia to turn that page.

Somalia is often used as an example of a failed state, but the reestablishment of a federal government and subsequent elections have created...

For Somalia and the surrounding region, U.S. interests abroad, the stakes are simply too high to let the country backslide.

Thank you, Dr. Hogendoorn.