Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to all of you. Congratulations on your nominations. Hopefully we will move you quickly through the process.
I think that we should be doing everything possible that we can to encourage them and to help them along that path.
you cannot have a military solution without a political component and political plan underlying that military action.
there are not military solutions to many of the problems we face in the Middle East.
I think we can do more to give you that additional flexibility.
The amount of money available to USAID and a larger sum to State has been declining to the point now where I think in 20...
It is stunning that we complain about the lack of influence that America has around the world, and then we spend 0.1 per...
When I travel around the developed world and talk about opportunities for U.S. businesses and U.S. exports, it is rule o...
It will be important for us to provide that fiscal space for them.
Frankly, if those two areas do not keep up in some way with the security side of the relationship, that could get out of...
My sense is that the increases that are in the administration's request for fiscal year 2016 are very well grounded and ...