Human rights in Cuba remain a significant concern. President Trump's new Cuba policy is an important step in the right direction to put pressure on the Government to address these troubling issues.

when a population of people anywhere in the world is being persecuted, mistreated and, in this case, even killed, they become vulnerable to outside actors

Haiti has such a difficult history. We know the struggles they have had.

that runs contrary to the legislative intent of the law the Congress passed, and it is something that we object to.

I sympathize deeply with the injuries suffered by the Guetta family, and other families participating in this case, and condemn the acts of terrorism that caused their injuries.

I think it has been a very good and informative hearing, and I really look forward to moving forward on the process.

I think that open media and a free media is something of great concern and a top priority.

I say Putin because Russian people are not doing this. It is Putin who has made this decision.

In Cuba, the Cuban people have not been able to freely elect their leaders in 65 years and live under an oppressive regime.

I find this whole process to be unreal.

I am concerned that with the loss of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, at least the U.S. participation in it, that the hope of some vehicle by which greater economic engagement, even at a bilateral level, has perhaps been set back.

It began one of the most difficult periods not only in my life and your lives but in the lives of our country and the world.