David Cicilline: “I want to just focus for a moment on the effort to address the issue of the terrorist financing of ISIL.”

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.

Democracies consistently prove to be the most reliable geopolitical allies and trading partners for our country.

We have to recognize that would include occupying part of Russia, toppling their government, and replacing them with a different government.

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.