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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

Why should we be perhaps providing dollars to terrorist groups? I hope these groups are being vetted.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

The key question, I think, that Congress needs to ask is what has happened, potentially, to create this dramatic increase since 2008?

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

We facilitated and participated in the overthrow of Gaddafi.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

But once you say that anyone who is Muslim and is anti-terror is on our side, then you end up doing the bidding of theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

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Jeb Hensarling
@jebhensarling· Republican · TX· Sep 21, 2016

Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Pittenger), vice chairman of our Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

You will hear the absurd and, I am sorry to say, un-American pleas for you to invoke blasphemy speech restrictions upon yourselves in the discourse in order to dishonestly avoid terms like Islamism, Islamist, Ummah, takfir, Islamic State…

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Jeb Hensarling
@jebhensarling· Republican · TX· Sep 21, 2016

I think that you are not looking at the financial instability at all that is coming up.

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Newt Gingrich
@newtgingrich· Republican · GA· Sep 21, 2016

It is extraordinary that the political correctness of Western elites has discouraged the study of what inspires those who dream of slaughtering us.

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Newt Gingrich
@newtgingrich· Republican · GA· Sep 21, 2016

Radical Islamist terrorists are the ones who threaten our freedoms and threaten our way of life, not the millions of Muslims who value peace.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Sep 21, 2016

It is time to stop engaging Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups and recognize their misogynist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-American underpinnings.

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Tom Emmer
@tomemmer· Republican · MN· Sep 21, 2016

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and thank a true American hero, Jason Falconer, for his bravery during a time of grave crisis in Minnesota. This past weekend, terror struck our community when an attacker, whom the Islamic State took…

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Sep 21, 2016

When I first got on this committee in 2005, we tackled issues related to the PBGC.

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Pete Sessions
@petesessions· Republican · TX· Sep 21, 2016

If you are in business and are not involved in politics, then politics will run your business.

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Dan Kildee
@dankildee· Democratic · MI· Sep 21, 2016

Mr. Speaker, in the next week or so, we will pass a spending bill to fund the government for the next 10 weeks, and it is absolutely critical that we include in that legislation funding to help my hometown of Flint recover from the…

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Terri Sewell
@terrisewell· Democratic · AL· Sep 21, 2016

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to discuss the importance of voting rights for all Americans across this country. With less than 50 days before Americans go to the polls to elect our next President and other elected officials, we are still faced…

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Terri Sewell
@terrisewell· Democratic · AL· Sep 21, 2016

Mr. Speaker, as I close out this Special Order on voting rights, I would be remiss if I didn't say that, as a daughter of Selma, I can think of no more noble thing for me to fight for than voting rights and the full restoration of those…

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Terri Sewell
@terrisewell· Democratic · AL· Sep 21, 2016

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 24 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, September 22, 2016, at 10 a.m. for…

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