I stand second to no one in my desire to see a negotiated solution that rolls back and dismantles Iran's illicit nuclear program.

I have an intelligence briefing on Iran, but I wanted to come to join the committee and its leadership in welcoming the most outstanding U.S. Senator New Jersey has ever had to represent it.

One of the main themes in the President's budget is the need for extensive investments in roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure.

I am here today to speak to the troubling situation in Nigeria, one of our strongest allies in Africa since its transition from military dictatorship to civilian rule over a decade ago. Nigeria is currently facing two grave threats to its…

We still have a stagnant middle class, which you referred to in your opening statement.

That a regional bureau raises the question or knowledge that the TIP Report says this about this country... is one thing.

I do not want us to be duplicitous in the way in which we look at this

In January, I sent a letter to the Secretary of State with our concerns about the realities of forced labor and foreign labor during Qatar's infrastructure projects in advance of the 2022 World Cup.

What can we do from your experience, what can governments, and the private sector, and the public sector do to increase protections for potential trafficking victims during conflicts, which increasingly seems to be one of our challenges?

Human trafficking in the form of sexual exploitation, forced labor, forced marriage, debt bondage, and the sale and exploitation of children is one of the greatest moral challenges of our time.

Well, that is something that we would have a real problem with.

there should be some type of basis under which you are believed until proven that that is not true.