Joseph P. Kennedy III

I find it increasingly difficult to justify the administration's decision to release the $1.6 billion in military and economic aid.

Our President needs to step up. Our Congress needs to step up and we need to do much more.

So that is a law that has gone unimplemented by the Obama administration.

I believe that is possible, but we need to be willing to put more pressure on Pakistan.

I urge Prime Minister Sharif to include the protection of religious minorities as part of his new security strategy.

It has a profound impact.

It is my hope that the United States of America and the international community will help assist the Chinese people in getting onto the path of freedom, democracy, and constitutionalism as soon as possible.

I speak today in support of this bill and in particular on behalf of one of my constituents, Colin Bower.

I want to thank Ranking Member Engel and particularly Mr. Smith for your years of leadership on this.

It's very clear to me as president of United to End Genocide that the building blocks of genocide are being--are in place in Burma right now.

But the focus should be on lessons learned and moving forward, not focusing on perceived imperfections with and assigning political blame for the highlights of the day.

I think the best thing we can do is, obviously, ask some very tough questions about what happened, why it happened, and what we can do to try to move forward.

I had absolutely nothing to do with the assignment of staff to the Board, sir, absolutely nothing.

I find him to be a very hard-hitting, a very intelligent, and a very reputable person.

I respectfully disagree about the subject of accountability. Four employees of the State Department were relieved of their senior positions...

I believe the U.S. Congress should call on Senegal's President, Macky Sall, to take action to improve the conditions of mining-affected communities in eastern Senegal.

I have been generally impressed by the work of the Interagency Task Force to develop a comprehensive strategic action plan on victim services here in the U.S.

In closing, Ambassador, I want to urge you to continue to pursue an interagency process that calls on all relevant departments and agencies to address this issue, like I described a minute ago.

We have a right to defend ourselves without assuming the obligation to make sure that every country that harbors terrorists ends up as prosperous and as democratic as our World War II adversaries.

What can we do to make sure that our treasure is spent wisely and we are matching the commitment that our service members are making abroad?

A unified world community sending a consistent message caused four states already, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and South Africa, to give up possession of nuclear weapons.

There is not a single church or other house of worship other than the Wahhabi mosque and some Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia.

I just wanted to thank you for calling an important hearing, and look forward to what our witnesses have to say on the issue.

I express our appreciation for Saudi Arabia's leadership within the region. We believe that the best solution is a political solution. And we believe that every minority can be respected. There can be diversity and pluralism.

I believe that the Administration's proposed reorganization of STEM education at NASA is deeply misguided.