While the administration continues its efforts to combat climate change and reduce emissions in the Americas, it inexplicably stonewalls approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline project.

I want to thank the Democrats for their participation in the investigation and the report, and I am pleased that their input was reflected in the final report.

I am pleased to know and to hear and report that both the FBI and DHS are already constructively implementing the recommendations of this committee's report, and I commend them for that.

Based on the lessons learned, we issued our findings and recommendations to fix some of the systemic problems that led to Tamerlan Tsarnaev falling off of our radar.

I personally went to Boston and Moscow with Mr. Keating and spoke with officials on the ground.

We are particularly concerned with the deteriorating situation in Venezuela where the United States has forthrightly called on the Venezuelan Government to respect human rights and the rule of law.

It is a good model. It works 99 percent of the time. We have to be right 100 percent.

I have often heard Vladimir Putin characterized as being more tactical than he is strategic.

Americans understand that the threat posed by drug traffickers is particularly intense along our Southwest Border.

Just last month, the Pena Nieto administration, in coordination with U.S. law enforcement, took down the biggest drug kingpin in the world.

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