Humanitarian relief in Gaza is morally the right thing to do but also in America's foreign policy interests.

This bill seeks to build on important diplomatic progress the Biden Administration has sought to expand on and deepen as we face continued and persistent threats from Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.

While I appreciate the work and I understand to be my colleague's aim to deter hostile actors in Iran or elsewhere from taking American hostages or wrongfully detaining them overseas, we must all work together and ensure that the State…

I support this bill and the important strategy requirements it contains and urge my colleagues to do so as well.

Don't count the years, make the days count.

I again underscore and emphasize, as I did in 2022, look, for us to do our job, we have to have the report.

But that is where we are now.

For them, for us, the phrase 'Never forget' is as much a memorial as it is daily reality.

And that is part of the reason why our policies, I believe, have been flawed.

We have got to take the hard votes ourself.

I would ask you to knock it off, cease and desist, and work with this body to pass a law if you want to regulate something.

It seems that you don't really recognize the authority of the Judicial Branch.