I want to conclude today's hearing, if I might, simply by thanking each of the three of you for your long service in the bar, to the public in a variety of roles, both as volunteers, as court-appointed counsel, as leaders in your…

It is my hope we will be able to vote you out of Committee in advance, all of your nominations.

Mr. President, today I rise to express my deep concern that the 2012 National Department of Defense Authorization Act provisions pertaining to detainee treatment fail to strike the appropriate, important balance between national security…

I think you could do no better than to take this great Delawarean and give him an opportunity.

As Chairman Coons has said, it is a critical country and a critical continent to the United States of America.

A stable and democratic Congo is in America's interest because of its critical role in the region, its large population, and its vast natural resources.

the elections were deficient. The CENI did not meet internationally accepted standards in the vote counting process.

I am grateful for your passion about improving the lives of the people of the Congo.

This is a moment of great risk and that there is a real possibility that it will slip.

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.

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 have faith in anything they do?