The Bahamas may be a small island, but it is part of our Caribbean initiatives.

where do you rank the efforts to make sure that narcotics trafficking, much of which comes through the Caribbean, is a priority of your ambassadorship, should you be confirmed?

I understand that there are some significant problems with your paperwork, including discrepancies and incomplete answers that did not fully align with your Office of Government Ethics paperwork and your FEC filing.

the President reduced the request for Colombia from $391 to $250 million, which suggests that the United States is walking away from Colombia.

conditionality on human rights needs to remain a necessary component of U.S. support to Colombia.

I know that you and I both have a keen interest in the implementation of the peace accords in Colombia and how they impact overall security and stability in our hemisphere.

the illegitimacy of a dictatorship, which now the administration has recognized that the Maduro Government is a dictatorship, something I applaud, is an illegitimate government.

Do you believe it is in our interest to fund foreign assistance programs that support democracy and human rights programming?

Many people would see your view for Proposition 8 as support for a policy of discrimination.

Many consider the Colombia peace accords one of the greatest achievements in the region in recent memory, providing the opportunity to end the region's longest war and bring stability and prosperity to the entire country.

You are not suggesting that the Bahamians are going to pose a South China Sea challenge to us, are they?

I, for one, am of the view that the conditionality is important here to achieve what I believe are mutual goals.