Sam Brownback: “I would like to thank you for holding this hearing today and inviting The Honorable Secretary Mineta to testify before…”

I look forward to working with people, working with you, working with everybody, regardless of their ideas or views, on how we can advance the agenda of religious freedom.

Promotion of international religious freedom is in our national interest, and it directly supports national security priorities including the defeat of ISIS and other violent extremist groups.

We need to put into place policies that will hopefully end that genocide.

We have to get more focus on this by a broader cross-section, or we will not be effective in this.