I hope you will be, within the confines of the State Department and the administration, an advocate for funding in that regard because we are sorely lacking in this.

I believe stronger action is needed. That is why I introduced bipartisan legislation last month with Senator Rubio to increase targeted sanctions against Nicaraguan officials involved in human rights abuses and efforts to undermine…

the administration's comments continue to raise the political cost for any Mexican authority that wants to cooperate with us.

So, if we want to get China to do more, and we wanted to change its calibration as to how it is thinking about North Korea, should we consider naming China a currency manipulator?

Americans and the members of this committee deserve to know what the President and foreign autocrats are agreeing to behind closed doors.

Of course, the European Union works by unanimity, and to the extent that we have had European Union support to pursue our sanctions against Russia for their annexation of Crimea, their invasion and continuing occupation of eastern Ukraine…

Again, Day 1, in talking to the staff of the bureaus, I will include human rights as one of our core responsibilities to promote overseas.

There is widespread evidence that Ortega, his family, and his political allies have plundered Nicaragua state coffers and have personally profited from the Albanista accounts funded by the Venezuelan Government.

It is not in the national interests of the United States, or of its security, to send people back when our own career diplomatic people tell us that the situation on the ground is not conducive to return a large number of those nationals.

I want to echo, to save time, the comments of questions that have been raised by others as it is--as it relates to getting Trinidad and Tobago to help us at the OAS on Venezuela.

Transparency is a fundamental pillar of democracy.

But our big problem here is Turkey. At the end of the day, if Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots were left to their own devices, we would probably have peace.