We must enhance our efforts to prioritize the humane treatment of the Iranian people through the framework of existing United States sanctions on Iran.

I rise today to introduce the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act. This important legislation would provide competitive grants for educational organizations to make Holocaust education more accessible and available…

Is there an amount of money or a plan that can actually work there?

I look at the situation in Afghanistan. I look at the $10 billion per month cost of our counterinsurgency effort.

shortly, we hopefully will be voting on a budget agreement for this fiscal year, and that will start the process of the debate on the next fiscal year. What we are about to do is more than pass a budget agreement; we are about to define a…

That is not acceptable.

I appreciate your recognition of that. The problem is that what AID has been doing over time is taking from the Latin America accounts whenever it faces a challenge.

I would like to support a country that is making strides in a secular, more democratic direction--respecting the rights, for example, of Coptic Christians.

I don't know how you get to bicommunal efforts if you don't have conversations and engage the Cypriot Government.

I look at Congress's language, as it relates to the economic support funds for Cyprus, and find that they go to bicommunal projects aimed at reunification measures to reduce tensions and promote peace and cooperation between the two…

this is a time to make sure there is a vote on this Senate floor on a budget that ends the fiscal year, that encapsulates the $78 billion in cuts, that strips out social riders that have nothing to do with the budget, that preserves a…

I rose yesterday to talk about the consequences of a budget shutdown, and I rise again today--hours away from facing that reality. What I cannot understand for the life of me is after having agreed to $78 billion in cuts, more than almost…