The burden is on the Government of Turkey to present evidence that would meet any reasonable legal threshold.

I share the concern of the chairman and my colleagues that President Erdogan... has actually lost sympathy.

I don't think we have--I mean, it is not apparent to me that we have a lot of options.

I would like to see our committee try to act, on controversial issues especially, in the bipartisan manner that, by and large, has characterized, I think, your chairmanship and the ranking member's tenure as well.

We have had no testimony, no witnesses, no hearings or anything of that nature, so it looks that this is a political bill.

Until recently, Moshe Ya'alon was the Israeli Defense Minister. He said, today, because of the nuclear deal, Iran no longer poses an existential threat to Israel.

Could my friend speculate that it might have something to do with the fact that we are less than 60 days away from the presidential election?

Does CMS have a legal obligation to recoup advanced premium tax credits or cost sharing reductions that were improperly claimed or paid?

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 5620, the VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act, and I thank the chairman for filing the bill. H.R. 5620 provides additional resources and flexibility to the Secretary to remove…

It has been a Marxist dictatorship since, really its inception, and it is obviously in all ways that we view human rights.

There is a reason why conducting large transactions in cash with this type of regime is really bad policy.

I am troubled by what the administration had announced previously about accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees.

the President plans to set the refugee ceiling for next year at 110,000, which would be an increase of 30 percent.

We passed a bipartisan bill in the House to put a pause in the program and then have certification at the highest levels.

We still have an obligation to those victims and to their families, and I believe the best way to honor their memory is to keep our pledge by doing whatever we can to stop terror from reaching American shores.

My final question, going back to Mr. McAleenan. In ISIS's latest publication, Dabiq magazine, they talk about smuggling a Pakistan nuclear device into this hemisphere and across the U.S.-Mexico border.

We can assure--and something that was actually corroborated by Director Comey, by the director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, by the director of national intelligence, that the vetting process that we undertake is the highest…

I think the concern at the time was when the director of the FBI testified before this committee that we can query, in his words, until the cows home if you don't have the databases to vet them against.