"Help us understand, if you would, how he is going to focus and elevate U.S. policy in the region around LRA, around conflict minerals, around improving governance, and resolving ongoing disputes in th..."
"I had understood Senator Durbin was making his best efforts to join us and now may have been unavoidably detained."
"I have heard from a number of constituents real concern about Cameroon and President Biya who modified the Cameroonian Constitution to run for a sixth term."
"this is a political issue."
"The United States must dramatically ratchet up its efforts to find a way to defuse this crisis and find a way forward that respects and honors the democratic aspirations of the Congolese people."
"Thank you, Mr. Dizolele."
"But the fundamental issue is independent international verification and with the purpose, as I said earlier, of enfranchising those who were disenfranchised in order to try and move to a position that..."
"Does one really think, given that the personnel of this electoral commission that were responsible for this charade in front of us, that we should expect the people of the Congo to rely upon them and ..."
"I would defer to the head of the Catholic Church in Congo, Cardinal Monsenguo, who in a superb statement of just a few days ago urged the Congolese Supreme Court to do the right thing."
"We should use those levers and insist on a delay on the certification of results."
"If we do not fix political legitimacy and we do not, on behalf of the United States, engage in governance questions, then we can do all the work we want to... and we will not have addressed the real d..."
"We blame everybody else and we give a free ride to the Government of DRC. That is not the kind of policymaking that the Congolese people want."