it remains to be seen whether Mr. Tillerson has the moral compass necessary to counsel the President toward a coherent U.S. foreign policy that advances our national security and embraces our values and ideals or if he will be another…

as I indicated earlier, this afternoon I had an opportunity to meet with King Abdallah of Jordan. During that conversation with Members of the Senate, there was a good deal of discussion about foreign policy challenges that are very much a…

Mr. Tillerson needs to answer whether he supports Mr. Trump's decision this weekend to ban Muslims, to keep green card holders out of the country, and state his view on the chaos that ensued from the terrible implementation of this…

I rise today as the Senate begins consideration of the nomination of Mr. Rex Tillerson to serve as the 69th Secretary of State of the United States of America. I thank Mr. Tillerson for his willingness to serve our Nation and for his…

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shortly we are going to be taking up the cloture motion in regard to the confirmation process of Mr. Tillerson to be the Secretary of State for our country. I had the opportunity, as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations…

They are not going to do it voluntarily if we continue down the current path.

It is clear that North Korea, according to the statement of their leader, is in the final stages of testing and launching the intercontinental ballistic missile.

So because China is not cooperating, we are going to have to treat China as an adversary?

I am not sure I exactly understand. You are saying China is not going to work with us, we are going to impose secondary sanctions on their companies, they are going to complain about that, but we are going to do it anyway?

That requires strengthening the sanction regime, making sure it is enforced, and moving toward secondary sanctions.

I do want to just get on the record that if North Korea moves towards establishing its nuclear capacity as far as weapons, is it not more likely that the Republic of Korea and Japan may very well start to show some interest in a nuclear…

That cannot work unless China cooperates, and we have not seen China anxious to join us.

I noticed that President Trump said, 'It won't happen.' Does that mean we have drawn a red line?

I found this hearing to be very informative, but certainly our options are, in some respects, very heavy.

shortly we will be voting on the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley. She went through her confirmation hearings at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and I had a chance during those confirmation hearings to ask her a…

I hope you understand our concern, that when we talk about changing Medicaid... it sends a signal that what we are going to do is cut the Federal Government's commitment to access for minorities.

To me, that is an extremely important part of our commitment to help veterans and returning warriors in regards to small business.

One of the major objectives of the Affordable Care Act was to deal with the historic discrimination against minority communities in our health-care system.

Thank you very much for being willing to serve in this public position.

I hope that we can work together to find ways that we can do more outreach to help access to capital for particularly minority businesses.

I just really urge us to recognize, yes, we want a better outcome, we all want a better outcome in our health-care system. But you do not do that by taking money away from our most vulnerable.

I have said many times that the Senate is a family, and today we are a family in mourning. Tim Mitchell, the assistant Democratic secretary and a 25-year Senate staffer, lost his battle with brain cancer this past Saturday night. It was a…

will be to make sure that because American companies, NGOs, and development relief efforts are expected to play by the rules and abide by Dodd Frank, Cardin-Lugar, FCPA, and other laws, that foreign companies or investors do not get an…

I would just urge you, on the first part, to recognize that we have to be disciplined as we deal with the Federal budget.