Joe Donnelly

One of my concerns is just what you referred to, which is having to go through Alimport, the state agency there.

I think there would be an immediate benefit.

What can we do from a policy perspective to better ensure that the benefits of trade reach the Cuban people?

I am a big supporter of increasing American exports to world markets, and I am intrigued by the possibility of opening the Cuban market.

I used to serve, Mr. Woods, on a school board, which can occasionally be a challenging endeavor, as they say.

These are our families who work hard every day and have the same American dreams, though, that everybody else has.

I voted for Dodd-Frank, but I voted for it to provide safety and stability, not to make it impossible for certain markets to have loans.

I congratulate the hard-working members of the Greater Bloomington chamber of Commerce as they celebrate 100 years of creating jobs, building Indiana's economy, and improving the lives of Hoosiers across our State. The Greater Bloomington…

Solving civil wars is not impossible, but it is not easy.

we seem lost. I have extraordinary confidence in the leadership at this table, but we seem lost.

We need to regard this as a transactional thing, and we need to set that aside.

If we do not have that this time around, all of the military gains are likely to prove ephemeral.

At what point do we put a plan together, execute the plan, tell them what we're going to do, and say, 'Stay out of the way'?

One of the things I want to ask you about is, you emphasized the need to work with the Kurds, Turkey, Israel, and other allies, to interdict Iranian arms bound for extremist groups.

Iran has the largest and most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East.

why are we unwilling to send a message to Assad that if he continues with barrel-bombing, we will stop him and crater his runways?

I see this as an opportunity to create more jobs in our State, more people put to work.

I think if the central government would do better at outreach to the Sunni, we absolutely could recruit more, train more, equip more, and support more Sunni in the fight.

One of the most important things that I would argue we need to do is to keep our allies, the Saudis, out.

So, while we try to continue to hope and pray that the Iraqi Security Force gets better, are we sitting here with Sunni tribal leaders who have the individuals who can actually start to move ISIS out of Ramadi?

Nobody wants to have cleaner water, nobody wants to have better land conditions, than the family that actually lives on the farm.

I think we all know well the need for EPA to rework the rule, to provide greater clarity for our farmers, ranchers, and state regulatory agencies.

It is critical to both the success of the Iran nuclear deal and our broader strategic interests in the Middle East that we have a clear, effective strategy to push back on Iran in the areas not mentioned or addressed by the nuclear…

I think it's almost fair to say the team is ready to go; they just need to get the signal to go.

Because I see this as a critical part of the nuclear agreement that was just put together.