Emanuel Cleaver: “I mean, I don't know if we could have gotten better than Graves or Timmons, you know, as vice chairs.”

It was rewarding to those of us who were on the committee to just come to a meeting and see that there was no name-calling, no screams across the aisle.

Too often, families of hostages, prisoners, even senior congressional leaders cannot get answers from the State Department.

We may not be dealing with it as powerfully as we should, but are there any exemptions that you can think of--companies or corporations--that would not be impacted or are not being impacted today?

We can be mad, we can cuss - we're three votes down. That's the reality.