Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/senate-panel-considers-ways-to-end-darfur-crisis Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday, senators expressed impatience with the lack of progress in curbing violence in the Darfur region of Sudan. The panel discussed the possibilities of military force or economic sanctions against Sudan. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. MARGARET WARNER: As the crisis in Darfur continues unabated, the Bush administration has threatened for months to crack down on the Sudanese government with an unspecified Plan B. Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee summoned the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, to testify about what that plan might be.Senators of both parties expressed impatience. Committee Chairman Joseph Biden.SEN. JOE BIDEN (D), Delaware: In December, the ambassador told a group of senators that Khartoum had until the end of the month to agree to the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers. That deadline has long since passed with no agreement by Khartoum to accept the peacekeepers and no reaction from the United States or the international community to its refusal. Today, this committee expects to hear from the ambassador a concrete plan of action. MARGARET WARNER: New Hampshire Republican John Sununu.SEN. JOHN SUNUNU (R), New Hampshire: We need to understand exactly what the reasons are for the slow pace of progress, and I think we need to be very frank. If there are disagreements within the State Department or within the administration about the path we should be pursuing, we need to know about that.