I hope to see peace in the Middle East in my lifetime.

I know that President Abbas is due at the White House on March 17.

I know I hear all the time from religious organizations across all religions... that family planning has become critical for the health and economic well-being.

I think it is absolutely essential that we raise that number and continue to invest in basic education.

I think we have to constantly weigh the investment in development programs and how they can be sabotaged.

The $6 billion to $7 billion in sanctions could be reinstated in a nanosecond.

We have called for a third party to get involved in mediation in some fashion, because it is in everybody's interests for this crisis to end.

The great champion of this is Senator Bob Dole, who has made this his great passion.

This is not the United States' responsibility alone. I want to repeat that.

With regard to conflict mitigation and humanitarian response, Congress provided robust funding for the humanitarian accounts in the fiscal year 2014 omnibus act, yet, the fiscal year 2015 request cuts IDA by 28 percent and MRA by 33…

Cutting the funding in half does not seem like an appropriate response.

I am also concerned about the continued reports of violence and abuses perpetrated by police and military units under the pretense of counternarcotics tactics in many Latin American countries.