Marco Rubio

Syria will remain a fertile ground for an ISIS-like group. It will be Jabhat al Nusra next or somebody else to step up and fill that vacuum as long as Assad is in power.

Even if you were to wipe them out on the battlefield, the ideology that underpins ISIS, this radical jihadist ideology, will remain in place.

In my mind, there is no distinction. They are two parts of the same strategy, which is to get people to commit terrorist acts in the name of ISIS.

You talked earlier about now as ISIS begins to lose control over territory, you are going to see them increasingly relying on the ability to inspire attacks abroad.

I received a request from Senator Rubio for OIG to review the Department's decisions and assessment modeling.

If he is elected, we will need senators willing to encourage him in the right direction and if necessary stand up to him. I've proven a willingness to do both.

The prospect of a Trump presidency is also worrisome to me.

It's not that I'm looking to undermine him but I think the differences between us on some key issues are so significant that I just don't plan to campaign.

Have you ever heard of Trump Steaks? Have you ever heard of Trump Vodka?

Given that the current numbers are clearly straining your resources and perhaps diverting from the ability to do some other parts of your mission, if these numbers continue to increase, if there's a dramatic, let's say, doubling of the…

It's imperative that we have that level of persistent presence.

So, if this Cuban migrant issue gets much larger than what it is now, if it continues to grow in its trends, it is your testimony here today that you will have to pull resources from drug interdiction to deal with the migratory crisis.

I want to talk about the Cuban migrant issue and the--just the massive surge.

We've seen a 196% increase in migrant interdictions from the first quarter of 2014 to the same time period in 2016.

Because of the repression in Cuba, it's no wonder that so many Cubans are boarding makeshift rafts in the middle of the night to seek a better life.

Well, I appreciate all of you being here. We have gone a little longer than we were supposed to be scheduled, but this is such an important hearing.

But I guess for lack of a better term, the grade they are in is not necessarily based on their age. It is based on their starting point.

And I imagine the education--in what language are they learning?

How many girls are enrolled?

I know that on her 18th birthday, she traveled to Lebanon. Is that correct? And she had opened an all-girls school near the Syrian border.

In Pakistan in particular, the girls that are child brides--what has been the typical response both from government and from their husbands and from the society?

That is the follow-up question. So you described a scenario where a parent basically is looking for a place, sadly, to get rid of one more mouth to feed in the home, and the school provides that outlet. And that is a terrible situation.

We are spending a lot of money in these countries--a lot of money--on things unrelated to this.

The disconnect between how society feels about it and some of these government leaders is pretty stark.

Part of this is the holistic approach because I see included in this is the health care aspect of it.