Chris Coons

I very much look forward to continuing to work with you as we sustain this very vital multilateral mission in central Africa.

Thank you, Assistant Administrator Gast.

Both what could we, as concerned and engaged Senators, do to be more supportive of the effort multilaterally and then what could anyone watching or interested do to continue to be supportive?

Thank you so much, Deputy Assistant Secretary Dory, for your testimony and for appearing before us today.

In the last month, tens of millions of young Americans have stepped up to take on a humanitarian crisis on the other side of the world.

What are benchmarks for success that will determine the duration of this deployment?

For millions of Americans, the Kony 2012 Campaign was the first they'd heard of the LRA's terrible crimes.

We believe doing so puts us on the right side of history, on the right side of our values, and on the right side of our strategic interests.

We can stop Joseph Kony and the LRA. We just need to keep at it and we need to keep working together.

In 2009, frustrated by the lack of progress being made by regional forces, Senator Feingold introduced S. 1067, The Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act.

Stopping Kony and the LRA is a mission that has deep bipartisan support in the Senate, in the House of Representatives, and in Washington.

I was very pleased that President Obama, in speaking yesterday at the Holocaust Memorial, emphasized the ongoing commitment and support...

We talked about a variety of different tools available to the AU, to the African community, to civil society, and to the United States.

I think the last thing we need on our hands is another incident of violence and instability on the African Continent.

Both of you have pointed out the very constructive role that ECOWAS has played.

George Washington gave us a huge gift by, at the moment that he could have made himself President for life or king, handing back the reins of power.

I have laid out some of our concerns in a letter this month to President Biya, as Cameroon's National Assembly considers the revised electoral code.

For the average Cameroonian, they look at Senegal, and they realize in the last 30 years, Senegal has had four heads of state.

Thank you very much, Ambassador Carson, both for your testimony and for your leadership regionally on these important issues.

Entrenched African leaders contribute to corruption, to economic stagnation, to a lack of accountability, and an inability of government to effectively represent and respond to the needs of people.

There remains a broad, bipartisan consensus in the Senate in support of the administration's action to deploy these 100 U.S. Special Forces troops

Today the LRA consists of only a few hundred people, most likely. But it continues to inflict a level of pain and suffering far greater than its actual size.

The United States continues to encourage countries in Africa and elsewhere to respect executive term limits.

I also want us to have the opportunity today to take advantage of some insights and some opportunities.

Senator Isakson has just returned from a trip to Uganda.