Marco Rubio

If this is going to happen in Alabama, keep it in Alabama. We don't want this spreading.

But you can testify today that you did not come under pressure from the Chinese government to block his account?

On international religious freedom, I just think any sort of cursory glance around the globe will reveal daily assaults on religious freedom.

It is an important point, because what I hear you describe, Mr. Wolf, is, basically, a whole-of-government coordinator that can bring to bear the different agencies and tools available to the United States Government in a coordinated…

In essence, to organizations that are going out to those in need, as opposed to waiting for them to come.

I think the potential irritant that no one has counted on is the capability of Iranian-controlled militia groups to act unilaterally.

The United States Congress has appropriated and directed that American taxpayer funding be directed to assist religious minorities, including Yazidi and Christian communities.

The only addition I would make to that is my feeling is that the Government of Kurdistan would probably be open to a number of measures, joint patrols of certain crossings, perhaps increased revenue flow back to Baghdad, so long as they…

We should emphasize to Kurdish officials that they also need to go down to Baghdad and negotiate.

Again, I want to thank both of you for your patience, your time, and your work on this topic. It is a lot of hard work. Your dedication to it is very critical.

So that is why it is related to the topic we are discussing here today.

We are not asking Kurdistans or Barzani or anybody to abandon their desires for independence.

Give some money to them so they can help their own community, not because they are Christians, but because they have been subject to genocide.

Yes, we should encourage our Kurdish partners to compromise because we are providing them with military support.

Well, anyway, hopefully, we will be able to work through that.

Let me just start by saying that to be in the tropics for 8 or 9 days without electricity, without water, without medicine, nothing good happens.

It is a looming crisis.

If you are a diabetic, you have had no insulin for 6, 7, 8 days, or the insulin you had went bad, the result could be catastrophic.

Obviously, Florida was deeply impacted by Irma, and then, of course, the Territory of Puerto Rico, which is the length of Florida itself.

They need roads rebuilt. They need temporary bridges. They need emergency communications. They need a massive infusion of fuel, water, everything you can imagine.

If you have a stroke or heart attack right now in some remote part of Puerto Rico, you're probably going to die.

What I'm more concerned about in the next 48 to 72 hours is ensuring that we don't have a Katrina-style event.

We need to lean into this a lot more than we traditionally would because Puerto Rico's government says their own capacity has been tested by two storms and a fiscal crisis.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, 11 senior citizens senselessly died in Hollywood, Florida.

I would like to thank our witnesses for their time and willingness to testify before the Senate Aging Committee.