Jim Risch actually said...

Nicaragua joins Cuba on a seemingly bottomless descent into authoritarianism.

If you cannot get a handle on that, if it is endemic in the culture, it is a problem.

The second and most urgent task in front of this body is to look forward and mitigate the negative impacts of U.S. withdrawal.

We must better define our strategic objectives, assign resources accordingly, and resist the temptations to do more than is necessary.