Mar 30, 2011
Part of our international assistance package should be encouraging and helping those countries to develop adequate programs at home.
Bob Menendez
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Robert Menendez is a prominent Democratic politician currently serving as a member of the United States Senate, representing New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2006 and has since been re-elected multiple times. Menendez has played a significant role in various policy areas, including foreign relations, immigration reform, and healthcare. He has served on several Senate committees, including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has been an advocate for human rights and democracy abroad.
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Mar 30, 2011
Not to do so I think is unconscionable, given the sacrifices that Colombia has made to produce real progress in this area.
Mar 30, 2011
I don't understand the lack of effort on the front end to undermine the gunrunning into Mexico, which would be in our own interests at the end of the day.
Mar 30, 2011
we need to address the factors that perpetuate the narcotics trade, namely poverty and lack of economic opportunity.
Mar 30, 2011
A former ATF commander said stemming the flow of guns to Mexico is a Herculean task.
Mar 30, 2011
Official responses to crime in many cases have not remedied the problem; have only exacerbated it.
Mar 30, 2011
we should at least line up the funding with the threat at the end of the day.
Mar 30, 2011
I'm a very simple man from the Texas Panhandle and I have to think in very simple terms as to how we address this problem.
Mar 30, 2011
One of my concerns is that we always think, for example, of Central America as a transit point, and now increasingly it seems to be a production point.
Mar 30, 2011
Why, of the $1.6 billion in law enforcement support promised under the Merida initiative, only $20 million of it had been spent by April of last year?
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