I actually want to say to you that my wrath should really be taken toward the State Department and not yourself.

This is a real debate that we need to have.

I too rise to talk about our friend and former colleague to many in this body, Senator Harlan Mathews. It was touching yesterday to be at a funeral service where so many people he had mentored stood and talked in conversation around the…

I do not want to sit by and see hundreds arrested, people tortured.

Venezuela is a deeply troubled country. Forty-one people are dead. The stories of torture and other abuses that our chairman so eloquently laid out certainly cause all of us to be concerned and want to be involved in helping shape a better…

All of us, I think, have had briefings on the human rights violations that are taking place under the Maduro government, and they are quite startling, no doubt, especially with this most recent report.

I think sometimes, you know, Congress feels like that even though you have those authorities, which we are witnessing in other countries right now, they are not utilized, and sometimes Congress wants to push you along.

I think everybody on the ground is appreciative of the things that we have done, but they know that Russia is far more interested in them failing than we are in them succeeding.

I think what we are seeing today is that we have no strategy and no policy toward what is happening in Ukraine.

I hope we can send a strong, clear bipartisan message to Putin that his repugnant behavior in Ukraine cannot stand.

I am particularly concerned about language in a bill that would tie implementation of the New START treaty...

I think there are plenty of us that would love to give you authorities, if you need authorities to help Ukraine defend itself.