Jim Risch actually said...

"I will regularly engage with the ethnic Russian population in Latvia through trips to Russian-speaking regions and engagement with Russian-speaking minority groups."

"I echo Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield's observation 'that a Mali isolated from its community of nations and ECOWAS is not where Mali wants to be.'"

"I will work with the U.S. Department of Defense to ensure our posture is commensurate to the threats and challenges we face on NATO's eastern flank."

"I will work with the Slovak government to diminish Russia's capacity to foil U.S. and EU sanctions."