Richard Durbin actually said...

What happens to those poor little girls---- Who become victims of a child marriage, it ruins their lives, and sometimes literally kills them...

I am pleased to stand in for Senator Kerry, who is unable to join us.

Burundi points out has not often been a major focus of United States foreign policy. But it needs to be.

Ultimately, I think democracy is going to come to Belarus just as it came to most other corners of the former Soviet empire.