I don't understand this willingness to play footsie with Vladimir Putin.

This budget ignores that link. It rewards one part of the triangle and it deprives, starves, the other two.

We should not send American servicemembers into harm's way unless we have exhausted every other option.

If they don't go somewhere, they turn into exactly what you suggested. They are Al Shabaab; they are Boko Haram.

I would hope the President would emulate all of his predecessors for many decades and release his tax returns.

This budget doesn't do it, which I think is one of its main weaknesses.

The most disturbing part of the budget, to me, is the explicit lack of faith in government.

These proposed budget cuts are a slap in the face to our Foreign Service professionals.

I think it is extremely ill--advised.

If we no longer have diplomacy and development as tools to meet international challenges, what does that leave? The answer is simple: The military.

We need to continue to support Ukraine's reform agenda.