Transparency is a fundamental pillar of democracy.

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.

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.

Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council include human rights violators such as Cuba, Venezuela, China, Saudi Arabia.

I am pleased to hear there are efforts to increase staffing and restore some of the damage that was done.

I drafted or spearheaded numerous critical statements against democratic backsliding in Belarus and Azerbaijan.

It is almost forced labor. They get sent abroad to places like Venezuela.

The importance of free, fair, and credible elections that all parties can accept will be higher than ever.

If confirmed, I intend to ensure robust implementation of the Golden Sentry and the Blue Lantern End Use Monitoring programs.

I am very concerned about it.

We recently passed new tools under the global Magnitsky to use against human rights violators.

it's truly an all-of-the-above approach ... And so it wouldn't be a weighted measure of one fuel source over another.