If billions of dollars later what you see is a spike versus a trend in the other direction, then something is not working.

You have to question whether or not the continuation of this type of expenditure in this manner is the right policy.

Voyeur magazine listed Cuba as a sexual hotspot of the world. So there is a lot of sex trafficking going on in Cuba, believe me.

Part of what I think we are all trying to understand is how the amalgam of what you do comes to the conclusions.

I had hoped the 2016 report--I know we are not there yet but--was going to be better, but I see some of the same problems that we began to see in the 2015 report.

You recognize that the sanctions were a driving force at bringing Iran to the table.

The Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 includes a provision that I authored that requires the State Department to submit to Congress evidence to support upgrades to tier 3.

My understanding is that the Cuban Government continues to be an impediment to information gathering not only because of its resistance to cooperating with the United States but because it does not keep records on human trafficking and…

I rise to speak about the ongoing crisis affecting the 3.5 million citizens who call Puerto Rico their home and to comment on the legislation that is pending in the House of Representatives. We are facing a critical moment in the history…

I was unavoidably detained for rollcall vote No. 83 on passage of S. 2613. Had I been present, I would have voted yea. ____________________

We are never going to get the world to automatically say, 'Oh, yes, let us have sanctions.'

Is reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act that I and others were the architect of, as is, without any changes, reauthorizing it, and it expires in 7 months in an election year where we will be here very little, is such a reauthorization…