We welcome the action by Congress today [Wednesday] as a clear statement that the United States has to do more.

The United States wants this desire to be realized and has decided to dedicate even more resources to ensure that Tuesday's (run-off) elections will be free and fair,

Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States

This is the United States Congress stepping in and saying these victims cannot get any kind of relief, even though their claims have already been recognized to be valid.

I can only assume that, when the vice president of the United States lobbies the Congress on behalf of cruel and unusual punishment and the need to be able to do that in order to get information out of potential terrorists... that it's still going on.

The hurricane that affects Cuba today affects the United States tomorrow. And when one strikes the U.S., it can also hit Cuba or any other country in the region.