The United States cannot, and should not, be the key that resolves every dispute in this region.

We need to have a comprehensive strategy and an answer to the basic question, what comes next.

I know that Russia is driving this now. I mean, what we have really done is turn the future of Syria over to Russia.

I met with Idriss in August and sat down with him, and those trucks were coming the next week.

I think our help to the opposition has been an embarrassment, and I find it appalling that you would sit here and act as if we are doing the things we said we would do 3 months ago, 6 months ago, 9 months ago.

Mr. Chairman, thank you, and thanks for having this series of hearings.

the humanitarian situation, as Ms. Lindborg has laid out, is worse than it was a few months ago.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 18, as follows:

I thank the Senator from Louisiana for her desire to see this to a conclusion. I appreciate the many ways we have been able to work together on so many issues. Look, I do not rise to blame either side right now. I do not. Let's face it, I…

Certainly Republicans have been in a place that was not going to lead to success for, you know, the last six weeks or so.

I want to take 30 seconds and say for the Record, I don't want anybody to think that I thought the strategy that was undertaken was the right strategy. I think I have been clear in saying I did not think that took us to a positive place…

It is my understanding that most of you are pretty familiar with a bill that is before--Senate bill 1217...