I plan to present the administration with a list of key recommendations for changes or for a path forward to United States policy and to introduce a resolution calling for Secretary Kerry to appoint a special envoy to address the conflict…

The United States should work with the European Union to convene all of these companies in the supply chain.

How do we accomplish restorative justice? How do we accomplish accountability and the end of impunity for gender violence?

violence used as a tool of fear all around the world has a horrible impact on families and communities.

if you can have major U.S. mining companies coming into North Kivu and investing, it will be a way of also bringing peace in the region.

Part of the purpose of my visit to Kinshasa was to urge President Kabila to travel to Addis and to sign the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework and to actively participate.

We need to use our leverage to promote transparency within Congo.

I think that having a U.N. envoy of such stature and such commitment and a focus not just on peace but also on human rights and accountability is terribly important.

I very much look forward to working together to address these pressing and important issues in the very near future.

For every villain who would take a life to further their ends, there are heroes ready to stand up to them.

For this, a sustained political process, led by the U.N. Special Envoy, and supported by the United States and this committee is the best hope we have had in more than a decade to help move this region toward the peace and prosperity that…

We have just got to step up the game and create a cost for those that are going to undermine the effort to have peace in the region.