Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

USAID has been kicked out of closed societies in Latin America, Bolivia, and Ecuador, for example, and has now become so concerned that it will be expelled from a country that it has become timid.

Bad guys don't need an excuse, so we should continue to do the right thing.

Should we prepare for the administration to take the same approach and provide a lifeline to Maduro?

So it is hard to not conclude, because the definition in our law as a state sponsor of terrorism...

I would say that the Cuban regime provides sanctuary for FARC and ETA, and I don't know how else that could be classified.

The negotiations look to be we are playing a very weak hand and I don't think that pressure is being applied to Iran

Now as we know, Iran impedes any and all IAEA inspections that it can that may be related in any way to its suspect activities including the PMD.

History has shown us that our intelligence assessments are not always perfect, so we cannot allow Iran to even possess the capability to get a bomb.

While Iran may have complied with some cosmetic aspects of the JPOA, the fact remains that Iran's nuclear infrastructure remains entirely intact.

I believe the only real way to prevent Iran's breakout is to dismantle its nuclear infrastructure.

Let us pretend for a moment that Iran hasn't already violated the terms of the JPOA, a notion that is as preposterous as Iran's claim to its right of enrichment.

Iran has been cheating, skirting the rules, violating international agreements.

That support is very clear.

What we will be doing in the United Nations is push in the shadows for a vote on Palestinian statehood in order to pressure Israel.

Congress can wait for the U.N. Security Council.

Keeping us in the dark it foreshadows the administration's approach to Congress and keeping us out of the loop on the Iranian deal.

I worry that the Cuba example was a deliberate attempt by the administration to keep Congress in the dark regarding the Castro negotiations.

I think my colleagues have told you we are looking at all the assistance to the Palestinian Authority.

I support a robust international affairs budget that allows us to respond to complex challenges and advance our interests.

He must leave. He is a brutal dictator.

In my view that has already triggered U.S. law to cut off funding.

Where is State and USAID in answering these 14 questions and what would SIGAR and GAO say if we called them up right now for an assessment?

What mechanisms do we have in place to ensure that the aid that we send through the U.N. gets to the intended recipients?

My concern is that once this money goes to the U.N. we lose our oversight into what is actually being done with that assistance.

I think we would see a change.