Sam Farr: “What we always forget to do is to help professionalize the legislative branch of government.”

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

My goal for U.S. aid is to achieve a level of effectiveness that every time we provide aid to a region or country it is with the final aim of transitioning them from trade to aid, like we have done in South Korea.

At a time when American leadership is needed more than ever, we must continue to invest in the international affairs budget.

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