If you could let us know what can be done to help provide for them?

What are we doing at the U.N. to try to get out ahead of this, to be proactive on this?

I would much rather make that kind of investment than have to either have American boots on the ground or suffer the effect of total state failure and collapse.

Is there any kind of diplomatic avenue still open on Syria?

it is particularly painful to see yet another Armenian community ethnically cleansed from its homes.

According to USAID figures, well more than 9 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria due to the devastating civil war there.

I stand today with the people of Ukraine and in strong support of this legislation, which will provide the administration with additional and immediate flexibility to assist Ukraine. I look forward to working with the gentleman from…

And does that mean, as a practical matter, that if you are too close to release or too far away from release, you may not get the treatment that you need?

I want to second what Mr. Honda said, of a great interest in DNA and trying to accelerate the opportunity, use rapid DNA.

I appreciate that this budget reflects a balanced and evidence-based take on criminal justice and on reforming the system to be smarter, fairer and cheaper.

I think that the presentment clause bears reexamination in light of some of the changes threats that we face

Are there any changes in the FBI practice or protocol that have been brought about as a result of Boston?

Thank you, Mr. Attorney General, for being here. Many of us greatly appreciate your willingness to come and your testimony.

Even though shutting down Megaupload did not stop all piracy, it was successful in making piracy sufficiently less reliable, less easy to use, and less convenient than it was before.

I wanted to follow up on my colleague Ms. Lowey's comments on the DNA rape-kit backlogs.

Yes. The State district attorneys usually picked those up, but of course the State district attorneys have their own limitations on resources and they set their own priorities that we will go after certain cases and we will not be able to…

There is a large body of evidence suggesting that solitary confinement is profoundly and irreparably damaging to mental health.

And I cannot imagine this committee or this Congress without Chairman Wolf.

I know there is a bump in the President's budget to accelerate our handling of the MLATs and I just want to acknowledge that I think that would be money very well invested.

I think the plan the President announced a week or so is exactly the right direction to go in.

If I can turn to an international challenge, that is Americans coming back from Syria that may have been radicalized.

I know when you took office there was a tremendous backlog in offender DNA.

I would encourage us to do it. I think it would be valuable for the federal system, as well as for the states to know if, in fact, this only makes the problem worse, in terms of discipline; otherwise, we are playing blind and maybe doing…

But is that criteria defined in such a way that there still inmates who have a need for it, want it, and can't get it either because they have language barriers or for other reasons don't meet the criteria?

I mean I would imagine a downside is you are also telling your adversaries what airlines do not use proper security.