Jeff Flake

With regard to sanctions, what has been the impact and what leverage do we have moving forward?

Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake has apologized for his son's behavior online. The senator calls the language unacceptable.

I think this committee is united around the fact that the FLAME Act is not being implemented in the way that we all intended it to.

It's heart wrenching to see some of the impediments that are still there to keep us from treating more of the forests.

Senator Flake is personally monitoring the situation. He has had multiple conversations with the deputy Mexican ambassador this weekend as well.

I can tell you, particularly coming from Arizona, which was the scene for a lot of this, there is a lot of mistrust, and people do not think that anybody is held to account at any time.

One thing that has been disappointing I think to all of us is that regional organizations, in particular SADC and the African Union, have not spoken out more forcefully and more on the side of democracy.

I would love to see more U.S. tourism there, ecotourism.

Thank you. Now I can stage a coup. Chairman Coons is finally gone here.

Good. It is hoped that in the Gulf of Guinea we can, I think we have, move to intercept the issue before it gets as bad as it did off the coast of Somalia certainly.

I thank you all, and I appreciate you coming by my office and I enjoyed the private conversation.

I think we have the right people to do that and look forward to hearing your testimony today.

It sometimes seems in the General Assembly, if it were not for Israel, Palau, and the Marshall Islands, we would not have any friends.

How can we change that culture? What can we do to better that situation?

Can you foresee a role for the United Nations, a broader role than is currently planned, in that situation?

I think the woman who crossed heard Senator Schumer's accent through the fence and thought I am in New York, where is the Statue of Liberty? I am here.

I want to commend what you have done in Utah with the Utah Compact. That has provided a blueprint and a model for a lot of people in Arizona.

I do believe that once you allow that person to stay in the United States after they have come here in violation of law, I would believe that most Americans would think that that would be an amnesty.

It was a revelation to go down on the border. We actually watched an illegal border crossing while we were there.

I have never been able to place all those who come here across the border undocumented in some criminal class.

There is nothing to suggest that 5 years from now, if we just realize that it is completely out of whack with labor needs, that we cannot revisit it and up the numbers.

I just want to thank all of you and Senator Feinstein for working so hard to get an agreement here.

We hope that the appointment or the raising up of this new force will come with enough backing of the United States.

Ongoing conflict between the DRC Government and rebel factions in the east, coupled with the central government that obviously needs some more serious reforms, has halted the development of the DRC in general.

The last chapter of the saga of cross-border support from Rwanda to armed groups inside Congo in the form of this M23 chapter was just overreach.