No teacher ever wants to engage in that kind of practice.

it's been at the foundation of our Federal commitment to civil rights and at the foundation of our Federal education law for decades.

I wanted you to maybe touch a little bit more deeply on your skepticism about the effectiveness of U.S. combat troop deployments into Syria.

I think that means local empowerment.

You know, you are talking to somebody here who was there when we negotiated the Budapest Memorandum at the end of the Cold War.

So, Russia has, clearly, militarily invaded Ukraine, but its end goal, I think, is not to march on Kiev or to militarily own that country.

We do not have the ability to offer substantial energy assistance to try to answer the question of dependence on Russian oil.

before I give my intended remarks and while the Senator from Alaska is still on the floor, let me just share with him--although I probably would not have used some of the pejorative terms, let me agree with him that this distinction that…

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we can spend money chasing these dollars around the world, but we are never going to be able to keep up.

This is standard, in part, because tests don't start until third grade.

We have to use the knowledge we have.

When we are looking at $300 million on a good day in democracy assistance and then we are handing out potentially 10 times that amount of money in an account that has very little oversight from the United States Congress, it tells these…

We shouldn't hold the dyslexic children back because we don't have the knowledge to treat the others.

There has obviously been a long-term shift of diplomacy away from the State Department to the Defense Department.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and Senator Mikulski, for having this hearing.

It appears that ICE could and should have taken simple additional steps that might have resulted in Jacques being repatriated and therefore never given the opportunity to murder Casey Chadwick.

Making a change to the IMD Exclusion is the right thing to do and will result in more timely access to life-saving inpatient treatment.

I thank very much my colleague Senator Blumenthal. I want to associate myself with all the remarks of my colleague from Connecticut. Let me congratulate the riders from Team 26 for making it through such inclement weather, making it…

We should not back down or be bashful about standing up for the Western ideal of tolerance.

I just think it's important for all of us to remember that you still retain the enforcement responsibility.

Obviously, a large number of us were very involved in the construction of that part of the statute.

Essentially, what it must result in is a re-articulation of the underlying goal of the statute, which is that the Federal dollars ultimately supplement not supplant.

You'll expect to see different methodologies being used.

Would a pretty easy step not be for the United States to say that if you want a resupply for the weaponry... you, as a condition, continue to be a partner in the fight against extremism?