Emanuel Cleaver: “We hopefully will be able to do this reform, because it's more needed now than ever.”

This will not stand. We need to have robust strategies and responses.

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

He's my friend, and he is somebody who believes deeply and irreversibly in treating people decently.

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.