The White House must stop putting politics ahead of our national security.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

if the United States does not lead the way, the international community will be silent.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for your testimony, gentlemen.

I am appreciative of your continued dedicated leadership on this issue.

Why have you not fully implemented every one of the sanctions laws that we passed against human rights violators in Venezuela?

How about the killer of this 14-year-old? We know who did it. Why didn't we sanction him yesterday? We have the video.

Today, we commemorate the murder by the Cuban regime of three U.S. citizens and one U.S. resident: Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Pena, and Pablo Morales. Nineteen years ago today, the Castro brothers ordered the shoot-down…

But he can commit these acts with impunity because nothing happens. We really aren't implementing those sanctions.

The policy is Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

I introduced last year--and I will do it again soon--a resolution to create an independent tribunal to begin the process of investigating human rights crimes in Syria.

It is important that our Government will continue to respond to this humanitarian crisis, but also that we will make the respect for human rights across the globe a priority and not just an afterthought.

We need to create that dynamic and that means what we did to defeat communism we made that our number-one goal and we worked with anybody who would work with us to defeat that goal.

We all are deeply saddened by Kayla's appalling murder by ISIL terrorists.

I want to share your sentiments on or sorrow for the loss of Kayla Mueller.

As Representative Ros-Lehtinen said, we have got a lot of questions about Syria.

Our investment of $25 billion in the Iraqi national army failed--failed miserably--because when you say they all ran, 250,000 of them, in the face of 30,000 ISIS fighters, well, certainly because Iraq is a majority Shi'a country, many of…

I offer my full support of continued humanitarian funding for this crisis, but I also want to make sure that our aid is effective and not falling into the wrong hands.

But, as I mentioned earlier, we also have a responsibility to ensure that we are being good stewards of U.S. taxpayer money and that these funds are being used to maximize efficacy and transparency.

Shouldn't we work with Assad? We worked with Stalin to defeat Hitler.

I personally don't believe this is going to be settled by the military.

We need to know exactly--if that means that he would be willing to commit major forces on the ground or not that needs to be part of any agreement that we have.

As you both have said, the United States plays a critical role in the international response as the largest donor country, having contributed more than $3 billion.

The Obama administration states that the training of Syrian moderate fighters is a large part of our strategy.

We won't be able to defeat ISIL over the long term without a more forceful U.S. policy toward the Assad regime.