Palliative care aims to relieve these stresses.

It has been nearly 70 years since the National Security Act created the National Security Council.

The President should have full faith with the National Security Advisor as a trusted confident.

It has been 15 years since Congress sent a State Department authorization to the President.

The NSC staff itself should not be carrying out the policy. That responsibility rests with the cabinet agencies.

I think the problem that we are discussing today is one more reason that the House needs to finish its work on the bill.

The chairman and I have tried to conduct this committee as the most bipartisan committee in the Congress because we believe that foreign policy is bipartisan and differences need to stop at the water's edge.

Energy security is an integral part of stability in a volatile part of the world.

We are very anxious. Many of us feel that more and more things are slipping away from what Congress is supposed to do and we don't like it and don't think it is good for the country.

This bill, Mr. Chairman, is a clean reauthorization and would not increase government spending.

I applaud my friend and colleague Congressman Danny Davis and other colleagues that have done likewise--from Chicago--for his longtime advocacy for SCD health programs and his reintroduction of H.R. 1807.

Thank you for sponsoring this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of this measure. I am glad that Mr. Poe said, ``That is just the way it is,'' because I agree. It is just the way it is. I agree with everything he says, and I want…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. It is clear that Vladimir Putin has no regard for his neighbor's sovereignty, and I think we should be doing more to push back against Russia's aggression. We also need to take every…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of this measure. Let me start by thanking the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Salmon), the chair of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, for offering this…

Mr. Speaker, I will close now if there are no speakers on the other side. If there is a speaker, then I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. In closing, let me say that, if children around the world cannot get a basic education, it will obviously be that much harder for them to get ahead later on in life, to contribute to…

Mr. Speaker, in closing, let me say that greater stability and security across the Asia Pacific needs to be a top priority for the United States. Our interests in the alliances in that part of the world are only growing more and more…