Sam Farr: “Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.”

If you want stable democracy and you are a highly religious society, it simply won't work without religious freedom.

Sanctions are an important part of the toolkit, but they can't be the only one.

History has shown us what we can get by retreating into a defensive, isolationist crouch.

I passed legislation called Proud to be an American Day. I was hoping that we could do that on the morning of the Fourth of July, but, because it is a Federal holiday, the Federal immigration people don't work that day. So we have been…