The United States needs to condition its funding for the U.N. on real reforms.

Some of us objected to the normalization of relations with the Libyan regime, raising its deplorable human rights record.

The Havana tyranny has again ramped up its assault against the democracy movement in Cuba.

The bill savages nearly every program that protects the poorest and most vulnerable people: Humanitarian assistance for victims of natural disasters, Pakistan, Haiti--I could go on and on--slashed by 50 percent, massive cuts in refugee aid.

We look at what is going on in Libya, Bahrain, Jordan, and Yemen, and are we going to keep in place a current policy that restricts USAID from providing democracy and governance support to NGOs that are not registered under the Egyptian…

I respect that the gentleman is not saying they shouldn't exist. But this isn't a matter of whether or not they should exist. It's that we, by statute, decided to create them for very specific purposes. If you don't think this is worthy of…

If retroactively you could undo the money that was spent to build the building, make that argument. You are right now trying to zero out the appropriation for the programs of an institute that Congress created through legislation passed in…

I plan to vote against this amendment. I want to just make two points: one, the gentleman from New York's argument is very good if, in fact, U.S. Institute of Peace was simply another think tank. If it were, then why shouldn't they compete…

It seems to me that in this frenzied competition to see who can cut the most and the fastest, we are losing all sense of reason and rationality. I am deeply concerned by what I see happening to the international affairs budget which is…

the American job market hinges on a dynamic, open Internet.

the FCC rulings on net neutrality are weak.

El Salvador has been through incredibly difficult times, but it truly... has actually emerged as an anchor of stability in Central America.