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I would just state that I think the rhetoric far exceeds the facts here. This is a simple amendment just to say when there's a disruption, instead of waiting around, when we know there's a problem, let's take care of the problem, allow the…
I thank the gentleman from Alabama again for his leadership on the overall appropriations bill here and for his particular sensitivity to this issue. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. Amendment Offered by Ms…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 30, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $17,319,000) (increased by $17,319,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…
We cannot allow this to happen. This will diminish economic prosperity.
We create 20,000 jobs building this pipeline, and we have a relationship with China where we access the second or third largest reserve. And the gentleman is right. There's a pipeline that they're building to go off west so the Chinese can…
We have already received complaints in the State of Nebraska about an entity that was all privately funded, business, now has competition laid over it with government subsidized broadband.
I think it is worth noting that your background and commitment to this region provides a deep reservoir of experience.
My priorities for the region are threefold and intertwined. First, it is to prevent widescale conflict, protect Israel...
Let me be clear. I didn't say the United States.
The United States is not going to stand by idly and watch this kind of brutality. It is not who we are, and the times in which that has happened we go back and question ourselves.
It doesn't function well, you are correct. But somehow it functions.
But I think the central question here is, what does a post-Assad regime governance structure look like?
He kills those 20,000 direct jobs. There's millions of jobs, if we just used our own resources. Do you know that we can be completely energy secure using our own resources? But this administration lacks the will to be able to do that.
Are there some trade practices or business constraints that we could re-examine that, again, would put us on a better competing field for African commerce?
American companies are at a disadvantage because we are not going to play by those same rules.
The Chinese take the stuff and we beg them to help the people in Africa.
China has a choice: It can join the responsible community of nations to aid and do business with Africa in an ethical fashion or stand by its 'friendship' with despots and tyrants as countless more lives are lost across the continent.