Sam Brownback: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Voinovich, I appreciate your willingness to hold this hearing.”

The beauty of what this job has been I think under the prior administration and this one is that there are contentious issues that people do not agree upon.

USAID should fund directly to independent religious organizations to do the good work that they have been doing.

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.

Religious freedom is a fundamental right of every human no matter where they live, who they are, or what they believe.