Reports of religious persecution and intolerance in Russia are not at all surprising, considering the impunity with which the Russian Government continues to conduct itself on the world stage.

I consider it an embarrassment that the United States is closing ours.

I met with the head of the military as well as Aung San Suu Kyi.

Sometimes we have to be careful, but when we are looking at the kind of tragedy we are looking at here, it seems to me speaking with clarity actually is an important tool of diplomacy, not fuzzifying it with other kinds of descriptions…

Ugly is ugly. This is an ugly budget, and it exists primarily to be a vehicle for tax cuts for the already fortunate, the top 1 or 2 percent in America, at the expense of everybody else. It will hemorrhage red ink for as far as the eye can…

When 800,000 people of a particular ethnic background are living in a neighboring country because they have been forcibly removed from their villages, I would call that ethnic cleansing, you know, pretty clear and simple.

If they go forward with the Trump recommendation, you are talking about a 32-percent cut to the State Department NAID.

Mr. Engel and I wrote a letter in November asking the State Department to implement all of your recommendations.

The decision, for example, to rip up the Paris Climate Accord, was that evidence-based?

So we have incarcerated millions of people, arrested people, and decided marijuana is the most dangerous drug in the United States since the era of Richard Nixon.

I don't want to accept that.

the fact is we have a President and a budget that would cut a third of their budget, and that doesn't seem like a real high value being put on their work.

Are we, in fact, going to cut off economic relations or trade with 80 nations? It is an empty threat.

Is it the policy of the State Department that abrogating the free trade agreement with South Korea would be helpful in our diplomatic efforts?

We have a model that works--of course, a lot of people on this committee didn't support it--and that is called JCPOA, the Iran nuclear agreement.

We talk a lot about bipartisanship, and we want bipartisan on this committee and in our foreign policy. But we don't get bipartisan when we ignore history or when we whitewash the statements and actions of the current President with…

He threatened to cut off trade with any country that trades with North Korea.

No. I think we have been working very hard to get the South Koreans to come around and be on the same page as we and the rest of our allies.

At the end of the day, I will give you one word that has to guide U.S. foreign policy in all respects but especially North Korea. That word is 'efficacy,' which is defined as the ability to produce a desired and intended result.

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We are miserably losing this fight to prevent fentanyl from entering our country and killing our citizens.

Is it not true that at most of the fentanyl coming into the United States is coming from China?

If anyone is listening, Bangladesh, please call.

that is not making America great again, that is making America weak again.

I must say to the gentleman, I am very impressed with what you just said about China. I knew it was big; I didn't know it was that big.