senate foreign relations committee

Gardner calls for tough policy on N. Korea ahead of summit

Jun 5, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner used a Senate hearing Tuesday to repeat his hard-line stance against the militarization of North Korea. The hearing was timed as a forerunner to a summit meeting slated for next week in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “It is my hope…
Gardner says U.S. needs new policy in trade, military relations with China

Nov 15, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner promoted a new diplomatic strategy toward China that includes greater military and economic ties to the region during a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday. Gardner, a Republican, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific and international cybersecurity policy. He called the hearing to…
Gardner questions whether U.S. military use of force law needs update

Oct 31, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Both the U.S. secretary of state and secretary of defense agreed Monday that North Korea represents the most urgent military threat to the United States during questioning by Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. Gardner is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which held a hearing Monday to determine whether changes are…
Senate considers bill to increase efficiency of U.S. food donations to poor countries

Oct 25, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Witnesses at a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday said inefficiencies in a food aid program are depriving millions of children in poor countries of essential nutrition. Even farmers in agricultural states say the Food for Peace program needs reforms, according to witnesses at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner…
Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner talks security threats with Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte

Jun 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner met Wednesday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at an airbase in Manila, drawing strong criticism from a local progressive organization that demanded a “full accounting” of the senator’s powwow with “a murderous strongman.” But a spokesman said the Yuma Republican was simply doing his job by discussing security threats with an…
North Korea hurls insults at Cory Gardner after he calls the country’s dictator a ’whack job’

May 6, 2017

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Ernest Luning

North Korea’s government hauled out some unusual insults Friday to denounce U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner after the Colorado Republican called Kim Jong Un, the country’s young dictator, a “whack job” and a “crazed maniac” amid heightening nuclear tensions. Calling Gardner “a man mixed in with human dirt … who has lost basic judgment and body…
Is it Cory Gardner’s time to shine on North Korea?

May 2, 2017

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Adam McCoy

Following his participation in a North Korea-focused U.S. Senate field trip to the White House April 26, Sen. Cory Gardner took the international limelight again, a place he has grown seemingly more comfortable. Gardner took the opportunity of the White House visit to call for broader sanctions against North Korea and implored the U.S. military to…
While not a Trump fan, Gardner impressed by Tillerson

Jan 16, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

Following the Senate confirmation hearing last week for Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner walked away impressed by the candidate presented to him as the incoming presidential administration and its appointees begin to filter in closer to filling their executive branch positions. Gardner said he came away from the confirmation…
Lockwood & Weissmann: Bennet’s Iran deal tale unravels

Jul 28, 2016

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Jonathan Lockwood

Did Sen. Michael Bennet lie repeatedly when he told Coloradans that the president’s Iran nuclear deal will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon? This week the world found out that Iran is closer than ever to obtaining a nuclear weapon and that the Obama administration hid key details about the agreement from the public.…
May: Obama’s dollar deal

Apr 7, 2016

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Clifford D. May

The president wants to grant Iran’s theocrats another big concession President Obama’s critics charge that he’s never developed a strategy to defeat terrorism, the weapon of choice for those waging what they call a global jihad. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist whose ear Mr. Obama most likes to bend, says that’s wrong — that the…