Bill Keating

I think that it will be important when some of our Western allies implement national security-based investment laws as well.

We do not have a global ambassador for women's issues, which is a serious lack on our part.

I think there's a lot we need to do.

Just quickly, I just offer you all the opportunity... if you could feel free to contact us in the future.

Despite many successes, we often feel like we are playing a rigged game of Whac-A-Mole.

Quite frankly, in 2001 no one imagined how much the threat of terrorism would, indeed, change.

I do believe that. I believe that it's one thing to train. It's another thing to show the example...

Thanks to them, we finally started to move in the right direction. Congress passed the Women, Peace, and Security Act last fall, which will require a strategy be in place to promote the participation of women in U.S. foreign policy.

Far too often, women don't know or trust who they can go to with that information or, worse yet, when some of them brought their concerns to law enforcement, they are ignored.

When we think about radicalization and terrorism, there are always warning signs.

Our mission is to be most effective and efficient in keeping Americans and our allies safe from terrorism and to have this exclusion continue or not to maximize this important resource is unacceptable.

By consistently failing to meaningfully engage women in combating terrorism and extremism, we are failing to not only address part of the problem but we are failing to pursue a whole new range of solutions.

Civil society, the rule of law, and the focus of our hearing this afternoon--women--are integral to our success in countering the terrorist threats we face today.

The NRC alone being able to do that without the input of our intelligence agencies makes no sense whatsoever.

It is important to have actual members of the Trump administration here.

I would rather give you and your collective activities on that arena more resources, more money, because it is killing more people than having an extended wall would result in saving people's lives.

However, with a new President--our President threatened to pull apart the trade agreement with South Korea during that period.

It is clear that one thing we should do is maximize our soft power, that we could, and sometimes things appear, from the administration, to be disjointed.

When Admiral Harris categorized diplomacy as the most important starting point, we should be taking a hard look in Congress.

It is our duty to come together in Congress to best ensure the safety of the American people.

Frankly, reports that the administration is considering quote, unquote, 'a bloody nose strategy in North Korea' is deeply concerning.

This bill is a commonsense piece of bipartisan legislation to tackle financing human trafficking.

Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative, one of the top three, criminal enterprises in the world...

This bill strengthens interagency cooperation and requires action to review and improve current anti-money laundering programs so they better target human trafficking.

I am encouraged, myself. I think that is one area where we have the three countries sharing some of these values together.