Ed Markey

U.S. engagement throughout the United Nations system allows us to leverage both resources and influence with other like-minded nations toward common goals and to advance American values around the world.

As amazing as our troops are, they cannot go everywhere or respond to every crisis in the world.

The first is getting the market-based measure and the environmental issues on the table and ready for approval by the Assembly in 2016.

Thank you, Mr. Barber.

I know you are going to do a great job as Ambassador. And I know that you do a lot of work with start-ups.

We want to continue our close intelligence, military relationships with Norway because we will counter threats together.

If confirmed, I look forward to furthering our security cooperation.

So we thank you for that.

I thank you, Ms. Birx.

This is a very important hearing. And it is important for us to ensure that we have cooperation that comes from all segments of the industry in order to resolve this issue.

And while years ago the whole question was wheelchair accessibility, in the 21st century it is Web accessibility.

My bill requires... commercial drone operators to disclose what data is collected.

These 20th century eyes in the sky shouldn't become spies in the sky.

We can give the authority to the Federal Trade Commission in order to make sure that we fill this gap.

So you're saying that without putting in place Federal drone privacy protections, such as the provisions in my bill, a company could fly something like this right over our backyards, and it doesn't have to be this long, yours is nine feet…

If we gave you the privacy authority, would you implement it?

Should we settle these issues before or after Mr. Huerta gives the authority and 15,000 of these are flying over the country? Should we pass a law before that or after that?

The new technologies like drones are neither inherently good, nor inherently bad.

1.3 million people already have not had a happy new year. That is because, when we tried to extend the emergency unemployment insurance before the holidays, the Republican leadership said no. The temperatures may be dropping to new lows…

The administration in general is in the process of loosening the regulations that govern arms exports.

I was especially saddened and disturbed by a December Human Rights Watch report that members of the South Sudanese Army had targeted Nuer civilians in Juba on the basis of their ethnicity.

The only problem is, as we know, is that the absence of the natural resources that are related to climate change then further exacerbates the ethnic conflicts.

You get into a very bad negative feedback loop, where the very thing that caused the problem, the instability or the food insecurity, fighting for smaller and smaller and smaller amounts of natural resources, then lead to the conflict.

For my part, I think the European Union is closer to where we should be on these issues. I think the United States has to step back, because the long-term implication of anything that we do can be profound.

Will the State Department suspend or limit future weapons sales to South Sudan, given the risk of United States weapons being used to commit atrocities?