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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

During the war in El Salvador when the FMLN and the government were at great odds and it was war, Napoleon Duarte, then the President of El Salvador, negotiated a cease-fire, a Day of Tranquility, as they called it, to vaccinate the…

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Mar 24, 2014

Does that number comport with your understanding of what we are talking about in terms of the loss of life?

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

He marched in. We watched, and dealing with Putin he has started Cold War II.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Department of State's Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a detailed, quantitative…

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

I am really disgusted, I am, by the lack of any kind of clear vision or policy in the Western Hemisphere.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

Maduro and the Government of Venezuela need to address the grievances of its people through dialogue, and respect freedom of expression and assembly as the basic human rights and principles of a democratic society.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

People yearning for freedom are looking to the U.S. for our leadership in defense of liberty, but instead, this administration is offering solar panels through costly USAID projects.

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Bobby Scott
@bobbyscott· Democratic · VA· Mar 24, 2014

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3771, the Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act. As the Democratic cochair of the U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus, I commend all of the sponsors of the bill who came together to support…

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

Mr. Speaker, the Russian bear has roared. Bully Putin has gobbled up the strategic Crimea. The world did little except protest. So the bear eyes more sovereign land as prey. We should not forget that while the West watched, KGB Colonel…

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

I am extremely worried about our lack of attention to the many threats to democracy in our own hemisphere.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

We need to reinforce that. I think we have a responsibility as the leader of the free world to promote freedom much more actively.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

Maria Corina sought to denounce the human rights abuses occurring in Venezuela but this broken institution, led by a cowardly Secretary General, chose to side with Maduro instead.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

The OAS has failed to be a venue for the people of Venezuela, for the people of Cuba, the people of the hemisphere to express their concerns about the lack of democracy and the violations of human rights occurring in our hemisphere every…

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

The Castro brothers continue to aid and abet the Maduro regime just as they have aided and abetted the FARC guerillas in Colombia.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

I believe, Mr. Chairman, the inmates are, clearly, running the asylum in the OAS.

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Mar 24, 2014

I think we are living in a fantasy land if we think that the bully-bear Putin wants to be nice to the neighbors that surround him.

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