I mean, a draw down of our forces--military forces in Afghanistan, I mean, what message is that sending to the people that you are talking about?

Having the school programs for girls and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan is one side of the coin but, you know, making sure that the security situation in those countries is in such a state to allow them to achieve their mission.

My amendment adds a resolve clause to the resolution that expresses the support of the House to work with our partners in Ukraine to improve transparency, combat corruption, and protect individual rights through an independent judiciary…

I mean, there's a great deal of evidence that, you know, the nature of the relationship between Iraqi financial institutions and Iranian financial institutions goes way beyond what would be permitted, you know, under the sanctions.

In numerous answers you detailed the support that Iran is giving to militias in Iraq and to al-Qaeda-related and successor al-Qaeda groups in Iraq who are propagating this violence and undoing, I think, a lot of the good work that we were…

Are we putting Iraq on notice that this is in contravention to the sanctions and detrimental to what we perceive as our interest?

The importance of maintaining strong economic and security ties with our allies in the Pacific has never been more vital.

I would kind of like to get a top 10 hit list of failures to implement the rule of law in Vietnam.

I applaud the Senate's efforts to create a bipartisan immigration bill.

Our immigration system is certainly broken and in desperate need of repair.

However, due to lax enforcement and insufficient internal controls, IRCA has not been effective in regulating illegal immigration.