I certainly believe that the number and flow of refugees poses a real threat to Europe, to the European Union.

Thank you both for being here today and for your service.

I would hope that we would do everything possible to try and urge them to join Europe and the rest of the international community in doing everything we can to support the refugees.

2 weeks ago, I left for Greece with a Senate delegation that included Dick Durbin from Illinois, Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, and Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts. In my capacity as lead Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations…

Some of us just met with some Ukrainian parliamentarians who were here, and they were quite--seemed very anxious about what is going to happen with Minsk II...

One of the things that I think we would probably all agree that has helped with progress in Ukraine has not just been the will of the people of the country, which is obviously the most important, but it has been support from the…

To what extent do you think the leadership in the Rada, the elected officials, understand the importance of addressing corruption?

I think, you know, one of the reasons why the Normandy meeting went better on October 2 was because what President Putin heard from President Obama, from Chancellor Merkel, and from President Hollande, particularly on canceling fake…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to follow up on the concerns that you are raising about opioid abuse and also heroin, the fact that it has led to a heroin epidemic. That is a huge challenge that we are facing in the Northeast and…

I think it should rise to the level of the kind of cross-agency--it is a crisis.

I would just urge NIH to think about all of the ways in which you can engage on this issue.

Well, to what extent then has the conflict in Yemen diverted resources that GCC countries might be putting into the fight against the Islamic state?