Despite UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women's in its concluding observations on Iraq in 2014 calling on the authorities to review the law on violence with view to ensuring that penalties are imposed on perpetrators of violence against women and harmonize Penal Code..…

Last year, he threatened to vote against the nomination of Mike Pompeo to serve as the next secretary of state because of his support of the Iraq war. Before the committee vote, Paul tweeted that he had spoken to Trump several times and met with and spoke to Pompeo and received assurances..…