John D. Negroponte: “You need to keep your eye on the funding for those programs so that it doesn't atrophy or disappear.”

NAFTA's modernization is both necessary and important.

There is strong consensus that it is in our national interests to do so.

We need to update the labor provisions in NAFTA.

A 29 percent reduction in the President's budget is way beyond what I think the market will bear and it will effectively neuter soft power in many areas of the world at a time when a little money spent wisely can bring about real change.