We try to exercise oversight over the humanitarian assistance that we contribute to that does have to go cross-line.

I had an amendment that passed the NDAA that the chairman worked with me to establish a coordinator for ISIS detainees.

There is always a danger. And the longer those foreign terrorist fighters are on the ground in Syria, there is a danger.

We have talked repeatedly about the importance of working with the EU, the multiplier effect.

I think trade and economic development are helpful. But the coronavirus has really, awful as it has been, it has laid bare some of the weaknesses we have in common.

I think this hearing demonstrates more than any words just your commitment and your legacy and the involvement.

it undercuts our--the so-called peace plan, you know, where there is a political date that was put on this, Inauguration Day, for the drawdown.

the way the administration is proposing this drawdown is precipitous and it is disagreed with, I think, by virtually everyone that has spoken today.

My concern is that Congress was not notified in as timely a fashion to those changes.

Thank you for your decades of leadership and commitment here in Congress where you have worked so hard to preserve democracy.

Several bills today also focus on those imprisoned, poisoned, or killed supporting democracy and speaking out against authoritarianism.