The fact that incidents like this are happening at all in the 21st century should be deeply troubling to every human being.

I call on my colleagues in Congress to pass the International Violence Against Women's Act that Senator Boxer and I introduced last week.

It is a shame that it took the abduction of 300 girls to get them to understand that they should have joined us at the United Nations.

We are all appalled at the plight of nearly 300 young women abducted in Nigeria by Boko Haram.

I believe they do not represent Islam, and, in my view, their actions cannot go unanswered.

We must reaffirm and recommit ourselves to the fundamental rule of law everywhere.

Because the promise of the Act--if, at the end of the day, you do everything that is right and you register and apply and qualify but you are just not processed, at the end of the day, that is really unfortunate.

If confirmed, will you commit to prioritizing this issue so families in New Jersey and across the country can rest assured that their Medicaid enrollment has been processed...

I say to my colleague from Texas that we have come to a conclusion based on all of the hearings, all of the testimony, and all of the reports as to what transpired and what we can do to save a life prospectively; therefore, I say to the…

I would say to my colleague from Texas that the consent request for embassy security we passed in committee in a bipartisan effort is much different than a partisan effort to have an investigation that ultimately also is led by a partisan…

I am happy to answer my colleague on that, because he suggested that his 10 questions--that because he asked the 10 questions, they are suddenly worthy of being answered, worthy of in fact not being viewed through the prism of any…

I think whether the President slept on that day, the question is, Did he even get told by those who had information that such an attack was going on? I don't know. The bottom line is would that have saved anybody? I don't know that either…