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.

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.

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

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.

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

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…

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.

I personally will not and I don't--I can't speak for my colleagues but I don't believe that I will be giving the President of the United States and I don't think the Congress will give the President of the United States a blank check on…

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

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.

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