Bob Corker: “At the next meeting that IGAD holds with its international partners, I would like to see Vice President Joe Biden go and…”

I can understand from the people's perspective that are doing this why they would want to go forward. And I understand that.

Through the Presiding Officer I wish to ask the Senator from Indiana, what you are saying is that you are doing everything you possibly can do to ensure that if your amendment passes, never in the future will your amendment be relied upon…

The question is, why would you say you're going to pull our troops out and lose control of a third of the country and do the things that caused us to lose all of our leverage and then go to Turkey with hat in hand and ask them to do…

We need to make every dollar of our limited foreign aid resources count by addressing problems where we can have a real impact on people's lives.