So, to some extent SITLA is betting on Uncompahgre. If the litigation goes a certain way, then those lands would be there to appropriate into whatever value SITLA feels those 100,000 acres have--possibly to develop gas and oil, who knows?

Mr. Chairman, having visited with Sioux leadership and the folks at the encampment at Standing Rock, a word of both caution and to look at this question with an entirely different set of eyes.

Let's create a system and a Medicaid program where people were transitioned off so they can improve themselves, go to school, become productive and move forward.

Governor Bevin is actually trying to take a program that he inherited that was a hundred percent federal taxpayer paid for now the state has got to start putting money into the program and trying to make it work.

What Governor Bevin is trying to do is trying to treat the expanded population of able bodied, not traditional Medicaid of frail, elderly, disabled people that are chronically ill, he is trying to take able bodied and treat them more like…

I think it is a great distortion for us to focus only on the threat from the radicalization within the Muslim community in this country or abroad.

If we are serious about this legislation, let's have a hearing. Let's hear from the State Department and others in the administration to explain the thinking behind the decisions that were made.

The Iran nuclear deal is working. Natanz--Iran has put 19,000 centrifuges in storage under international control. That is a win.

I believe that Mr. Engel has made a very creative attempt at trying to find common ground. I will support Mr. Engel's substitute, and, sadly, I will be required to oppose the chairman's bill.

I strongly support Mr. Engel's amendment, which I think accomplishes what all of us on this committee in a bipartisan way should want.

the scandal of not taking advantage of that has cost Virginia billions of dollars of Federal money

Other than that, we killed it. I mean, at some point the critics have to take responsibility for charges they made that have in fact not been borne out.

I find it ironic. Mr. Spiro, was not the ACA absolutely modeled on a Republican Governor's health care bill in Massachusetts?

If we really want to do something, that is money waiting to be taken advantage of

The point you are making about ransom, do I understand the point you are making is that when you have used such a highly-charged emotive word, you have clearly prejudged the situation.

I come here as a member of this committee and subcommittee and also as the co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Korea.

This money was a payment for undelivered Iranian-owned, American-made military equipment dating back before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

I happen to believe that the U.S.-Turkey relationship is a very strategic and critical one.