Prioritize Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking, Forced Labor, and Child Labor.

Make Religious Freedom Diplomacy a Priority.

Promote Dialogue Regarding Tibet.

Congress should consider ways to express through public statements, official visits, and resolutions the important connection between a free press, a vibrant civil society, an independent judiciary, and expanded democratic governance in…

The Administration should consider seeking revisions to the U.S.-China Consular Convention to clarify that Americans detained in China may meet with a lawyer of their choice.

Congress should reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act and consider expanding efforts to channel uncensored news and information into North Korea and to asylum-seekers in China through all possible means.

The Administration should develop interagency talking points to raise issues of human rights in China's ethnic minority areas.

The Administration should continue to issue annually the report outlined in Section 301 of the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992.

The Administration should consider carefully the nature and scope of its counterterrorism cooperation with the Chinese government.

Still others in our country face a threat of being deported from the only country that they know.

Are you aware of any White House instruction that DHS should refuse to respond to inquiries or requests for information from certain Members or certain parties within Congress?

Citizens in those areas, particularly in Puerto Rico and its neighboring islands, are in dire need of assistance.

First and foremost in DHS's mission is to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.

As you know, the DHS has the largest law enforcement force in the country, and if confirmed, you would certainly play a very critical role in reviewing the guidance that is put out to the agency.

Our hearts certainly go out to all those affected in the Las Vegas shooting this week.

Do you commit to reviewing any outstanding congressional inquiries and requests for information and then reporting back to this Committee on the status of those?

I think that some actions by the administration, such as the travel ban as well as some very divisive rhetoric that we have heard coming out of the administration, have consequences, and sometimes very significant consequences.

The boldness and the outspokenness of something that is so evil, proudly marching under a Nazi flag, is something that I think many of us did not think we would see in this country, but now we have seen it.

those Americans are very deserving of whatever it takes for us to address the crisis, the humanitarian crisis that is impacting 3.5 million American citizens in Puerto Rico as we speak today.

In the PIPES Act of 2016, I worked hard to include text designating the Great Lakes as an 'Unusually Sensitive Area'.

That is why I am so concerned about some of the budget choices made by this Administration.

What are the resources, what are your budgets?

And, make no mistake, I think that some of the darkest elements in our society have become emboldened.

I would appreciate it.

we have had 62 incidents since September 11, 2001 (9/11) and 106 fatalities by the white supremacists, anti-government, and other violent extremists.