I think it is critically important to create a very high standard in the NAFTA negotiations that preserves the gains made on human rights and anticorruption commitments in TPP.

I rise today to introduce a resolution to mark World Refugee Day, and to address the ongoing displacement crisis across the globe. War, conflict and persecution have forced millions of people to leave their homes, creating more refugees…

It was not terribly controversial, but it did contain a restriction.

I do not believe Congress has authorized force.

We cannot run away from this responsibility, and I thank you for holding this hearing.

I agree with you that Congress has a responsibility to be clear on its authorization and to repeal the 2001 and replace it.

After the attack on 9/11, all of us wanted to take action against those who caused that tragedy.

We are now 16 years beyond the 2001 AUMF, and yet it continues to be used as justification for a wide range of military operations.

The administration is not having that dialogue with us.

I think both of you agree we should repeal both 2001 and 2002--replaced.

I think this subject needs the open hearings in our committee.

I think it was the United States Senate, guided by this committee, that did exactly what we needed to do in regards to the appropriate role of Congress.

Congress has a responsibility to express itself on the use of military force and that the interpretations of both Democratic and Republican administrations on our 2001 authorization certainly go well beyond what Congress intended.

April was National Minority Health Month. I point that out because I have worked with many of my colleagues in order to advance minority health. We have done some very important things in recent years that I am very proud of, and many of…

That review process will give Congress the right role to review executive actions so we are stronger, working together. It also gives the President a stronger hand in negotiating with Mr. Putin and Russia because Congress has said: You…

Well, first, to Senator Corker. There is a reason Members want to serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We had a long list of Members who wanted to join our committee in this Congress. Quite frankly, I think the reason they want…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas…

I thank Senators Menendez, Blumenthal, Brown, Hirono, Markey, Klobuchar, Van Hollen, Booker, Peters, Duckworth, and Carper for their help in regard to minority health and the resolution.

let me return the compliment to Senator Corker. Senator Corker announced in his opening remarks about the bipartisan vote in our committee on the Iran sanctions bill. In the last Congress, we were able to get a unanimous vote on the Iran…

I just want to follow up briefly with Chairman Corker. The two of us became friends in 2007, when we were both elected to the U.S. Senate the same year and were part of the same class. But I think the two of us really became close friends…

Well, understand Congress and previous Congresses have spoken on these by statutes.

I will just give you another example. Your budget proposes to eliminate the development assistance account at USAID and the economic support fund at State.

This was a very challenging negotiation between the Banking leadership and the Senate Foreign Relations leadership.

The FY 18 Budget Request makes a draconian $1 Billion cut to the FMF program, exempting only Israel, Jordan and Egypt.

I appreciate the comments you made about IDA and some of the things that we can do.