Cuba has been there longer, has taken more profit than any other country of the region.

What the regime has done is they have taken oil, which belongs to the people of Venezuela.

There is no U.S. embargo against Venezuela or any embargo from anyone. The only embargo on the people of Venezuela is self-imposed by the Maduro regime.

A clear message must be sent to Maduro and his colleagues that the criminals whose corruption, whose strategy, and whose orders have created this crisis and killed countless of their citizens should be targeted and held to account.

In fact, I have not seen any weight loss among virtually anyone at senior levels of the government.

The State Department's core is being gutted. Tillerson is running Foggy Bottom the way a corporate raider might take over a company.

To suggest, as I have heard, the possibility of folding USAID into State, to me, is alarming.

I worry, particularly given this administration's intentions, for example, to completely cut funding for democracy assistance.

In 2015, the Congress directed the administration to deduct from our aid to the Palestinians in relation to the terrorism-related payments.

I have, since the year 2014, come to the Senate floor on numerous occasions, perhaps more than I hoped to, to discuss the developing situation in the nation of Venezuela. The reason why I have taken such an interest in this issue is…

These so-called welfare payments, I think you all have described sort of a system where we are not rewarding specific acts, in the amount of just welfare payments to help people who are coming on tough times.

Partnering with Putin on a cyber security unit is akin to partnering with Assad on a chemical weapons unit.