I think it's remarkable, and I hope people listening today in the United States... are listening to the chairman of this committee, who made a profoundly remarkable opening statement.

I also want to record my support on what you are all doing for the young girls in the situation in Nigeria there with the Boko Haram.

I believe you mentioned in your testimony that this is a feeling of Afghan Government officials, civil leaders, and that there's a growing appreciation of the coalition's efforts; is that correct?

The cuts that you all did and without going to specific cuts, you all went down and made cuts to a neighbor that has a large impact.

If we put in $1 of taxpayers' dollars, we expect to be able to measure that $1 that we gave you.

I slightly disagree with your statements on that.

I would ask your folks to look at that.

Why would you all decrease money, especially when we had just increased it by $10 million?

America's funding was cut by 49 percent.

Mr. Speaker, ``We eat all we can and we sell the rest.'' That is the slogan for the Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, Texas, that makes the best ice cream in the world. With the U.S. overabundance of natural gas, especially in Texas, that…

First and foremost, we need to recognize that this debate, this discussion is predicated on certain premises that I disagree on.

You don't believe that 97 percent of all scientists agree with the manmade global warming theory, do you?

But with that said, I think there is an honest disagreement as to whether human activity is changing our climate.

It is important that we get our science right here because what we are doing is mandating costs.

it would destroy the very thing that you are bragging about.

those of us who think that the concept of global warming is fraudulent and that it has not been proven

Does anyone on the panel know anything about that?

we have had absolutely flat temperatures.