Sam Brownback: “I just--I am really puzzled as to why now, why the crackdown now over the past couple of years?”

I rise to pay tribute to my colleague. What a great gentleman. This is an august body, a wonderful place, a delightful place to serve. It has great issues before it. There are people who are gentlemen and gentleladies in it who conduct…

I pledge to you my work to press the Government of India to be a government that honors religious freedom for everybody.

However, this report tells only one-half of the story. Actually, manufacturing payroll jobs have decreased by 660,000 since the Obama stimulus was enacted.

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.