we cannot cede foreign policy decision-making to the Department of Defense or the Intelligence Community.
Airstrikes are not a policy. Intelligence-gathering operations are not a policy.
I have been intimately involved and paying close attention to Venezuela for some time.
I think, clearly, it allowed the Maduro government, it gave it some breathing room.
I think we must be clear in naming the regime... a dictatorship, because that is what it is.
There would be a lot of people who would be happy to see me leave the Senate.
I have not found too many dictators that willingly, through engagement, give up their powers.
I believe in American exceptionalism in so many ways.
I do not quite understand it, is engagement with dictatorships that basically own everything and do not want to give it up.
I get real concern when I see Cuba's influence in Venezuela.
I hope that sometime soon the administration will nominate individuals that the committee can consider.