The decision by President Obama to normalize relations with Cuba dominated the headlines in the region in the recent Summit of the Americas meeting.

In Venezuela, as Senator Cardin noted, after a stunning victory in the polls where the opposition did indeed claim majority in the parliament for the first time in 17 years.

Several countries in the region are facing the most serious economic times that they have seen since 2008.

The Foreign Relations Committee will come to order.

We are already seeing some of that in Brazil where President Rousseff faces growing opposition.

I think it is tremendously important that we look at this major investment of $750 million and do some oversight.

I also rise to applaud Congress for including important funding in the Omnibus appropriations bill that will help in our efforts to fight human trafficking and slavery around the world through the End Modern Slavery Initiative Act. I think…

as we continue consideration of the omnibus, I rise today to applaud the inclusion of language I coauthored with Senator Mark Warner that will ensure that the fate of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--entities Congress…

What we hear in classified briefings about the direction and the signals and all of the things that are occurring in Afghanistan directly contradict some of the rosy public statements that are made about what is happening within the…

A decade after the United States helped regional leaders coax the warring sides of Sudan and now South Sudan to end the decades-long war that displaced and killed millions, the very same type of violence has returned to the region under…

This brutality just cannot continue.

I find it shocking that the Government of South Sudan has for a long time spoken against UNMISS, denigrated its work.