I rise to oppose the Blunt amendment which simply goes way too far. The President has struck the right balance in his decision to address religious institutions' concerns when it comes to providing women's health services, but this…

I think it sends a very clear message to our allies abroad, joining with the Europeans that are already pursuing an oil embargo, about the seriousness of this nature.

Hamas remains a terrorist group bent on Israel's destruction.

I think the stronger and more uniform the message is, the fewer challenges we will have getting countries to join us in common cause toward something that is in their mutual national security interest.

I want to call your attention to what is happening here in our own hemisphere, and I appreciate that probably more than any other Secretary of State, your travel to the hemisphere has been extraordinary.

I hope you agree with me that the best peaceful diplomacy tool left to us to stop Iran's march toward nuclear weapons is the vigorous enforcement of the sanctions policy that we presently have, particularly the Central Bank of Iran.

I would have preferred that we had some scale, but I have heard the arguments for why having a subjective criteria may be better.

today I wish to honor the life of Whitney Elizabeth Houston who passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2012. Whitney Houston was a shining star born in the great city of Newark, NJ, whose life will be celebrated locally and globally by her…

Is the search for operational capacity something that we should be concerned about?

Iran is seizing headlines around the world as its leadership pursues a singular agenda, to achieve nuclear weapons capacity.

I assume if that's the case you wouldn't have accepted our invitation; is that correct?

There have been independent sources that have stated that Hezbollah has training camps in the jungles of Venezuela.