This is as important as this committee has dictated in a bipartisan way, which means that you cannot subvert its importance because you have economic reasons with a country.

I want to make just one other comment if I might, and that is, there are many reasons I was concerned about the President's executive order on immigration and refugees.

My legislation requires TIP rankings to be contingent on concrete actions taken by a country in the preceding reporting period.

So we should tread lightly before we make major changes that create disruptions.

I rise today to speak in opposition to President Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin. From his days at Goldman Sachs, on the frontlines of developing the very products that brought our economy to its knees…

Our economy, though not perfect, has made tremendous strides since the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession.

I have come to the floor to speak on the nomination of Congressman Price to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. But before I do, I must speak to the decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just decided in…

You treat with a soft velvet glove one of the most significant strategic challenges we have with Russia.

I am concerned that it will take the Congress, particularly the Senate, to help lead on these issues with Russia.

I rise today as a product of New Jersey public schools, the son of Cuban refugees whose parents decided to leave everything behind because they did not like the dictatorship from the right and did not like what they saw in the Sierra…

It appears as if the Obama administration is using Tehran talking points.

I appreciate that. North Korea is fitting and appropriate to be one of the first policy issues we have up because it is a real challenge to the national security of the United States and to critical allies.