If in fact we care about growing our economy, then certainly having a more robust middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has a propensity for U.S. goods and services, is in our economic interests.

I look at the enormous inequality, which is one of the underlying root causes of the challenge that we have in the hemisphere, and I say, well, we can't do that alone.

This is not a case of the United States versus Venezuela, but rather Venezuela versus democracy.

When you leave and you care about something as much as I do about Latin America and our relationship...

I returned from Cuba just a few weeks ago, stunned to see that the country is finally making some of the critical changes in its own society.

Mr. President, I rise to speak of what I have addressed in the past about injustice. It is about the reality that it is no secret that decades of discrimination in lending practices at the United States Department of Agriculture have made…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Parity for Hispanic Farmers

I think history will record that you presided over some of the most tumultuous times in our financial system.

If you do not act in the next 2 to 3 weeks, we will have a global financial meltdown.

I mentioned in my opening statement that 17 of my colleagues joined with me in a letter to the Secretary, and it is our concern about HAMP.

Didn't the British accelerate their normalization with Libya at a much faster rate?