Cory Gardner

We hope those passengers from Chicago will find their way down from Michigan, Chicago, over to southeastern Colorado.

The line is essential to keeping those rural communities on the map.

High-speed rail can do wonders, we know, for our local, State, and regional economic competitiveness.

It is pretty incredible to see the list of contributors, and like you said, there are three stops in Colorado but a number of communities contributed to this matching grant.

On February 18, 2016, President Obama signed the bill that Senator Menendez and I had worked together on.

The Senator from Tennessee talked about his disappointment with the United Nations. I want to go back over some of the points we talked about earlier today. Senator Cardin, our colleague from Maryland, mentioned the fact that the United…

This legislation begins the process of reversing course from these failed policies toward building the strong policies that we need to stop the forgotten maniac. I urge my colleagues to support this bill--this amendment--which passed with…

Are you going to be making that one of your top priorities, if confirmed, to work with Malaysia in terms of terror financing?

That is something that seems very likely, and it certainly happened in Vietnam.

And part of the investment that we can make through Laos through our efforts at the State Department should hopefully open up more opportunities and more space for civil society.

Economic development would add to the openness of the political system there, as it has in other places around the globe.

This hearing will come to order. Let me welcome you all to today's full Senate Foreign Relations--not everyone gives up the gavel that easy.

I want to thank Senator Cardin for his work and cooperation in setting up this hearing today.

I would note that we do--the sanctions, the targeted sanctions are somewhat dynamic in the sense that people can be taken off the designated list if they show that they have ended the behaviors that put them on the list.

There will be tremendous expectations for this new government both inside the country with people looking for economic benefits and further reforms.

How many of our trade partners are actively pursuing energy deals with Iran right now?

Do we believe they have more means of production today than they did in terms of energy----

Uganda will hold elections in 2016, during which President Museveni will seek a fifth term. If confirmed, I will urge the President to ensure the political space necessary for a spirited and robust campaign in which all parties participate…

I have confidence they can do it. And if confirmed, I am going to bend every effort to convey to them the views of the United States and would encourage them to get back on that democratic path.

We want them to get back to democracy as soon as possible. We would like to see elections very soon.

Just yesterday, the United States Government signed a $1 billion loan guarantee for Ukraine.

So, when it comes to the Arctic, Russia is living by the terms of the agreement, or at least what we believe the agreement to be?

Thank you for your willingness to serve this country.

This committee has worked very hard to make sure that we do not focus on red versus blue.

But, I mean, has this assessment, in your mind, changed substantially or substantively since this report came out in February?