Therefore, I am confused and concerned with the focus of today's hearing, as evidenced by the hearing title insinuating the FEMA work force has a wide-spread integrity problem.

If you develop that trust and respect that can give you a lot of leverage to be able to get things done.

When he becomes the issue, then that's a trouble.

You can't run a White House where you have members publicly shooting at one another while the president needs the support of a strong staff in order to be able to conduct policy.

No, not at all. I think it frankly undermines something that has made the United States, the strongest military power on the face of the earth.

I do not believe, as I never believed with China, that just as we were going to open up our markets and have an economic relationship, which has built this monster that China is today, that that is in the interests of the United States if…

I am pleased that President Trump has kept his promise and is moving forward with a theories based on what he believes and what some of us believe are--is best for the American people rather than trying to buy off other people in other…

If instead of deploying the U.S. Navy to worry about these islets you want to deploy it to protect our ports from unfair Chinese imports, you may have a partner in that.

So we are going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fight with China over little islets that we claim have strategic significance but really don't, and we are going to ignore the chance to spend a tiny, tiny fraction of that on the…

Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding. As one of the three co-chairs of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of Democrats committed to bringing our Nation's deficit and debt under control, I rise in opposition to this amendment. This…

The first bill, H. Res. 422, urges autonomy for Hong Kong that is consistent with the one country, two systems policy.

I support all four bills, namely the ones regarding Hong Kong, China, North Korea, and Taiwan.

Is China a currency manipulator today?

I want to commend the chair and the ranking member for bringing to us nine well-crafted bipartisan bills.

I would hope you would use your power on FSOC to break up the 'too big to fail' banks.

China is not going to change its policy toward North Korea till we change our policy.

The easy way to meet our political objectives here in Washington is to say we can get China to change its policy without doing anything we don't feel like doing.

Mr. Chair, I want to thank all of my colleagues for their leadership and work on this important amendment to strike this harmful rider, to prevent implementation of the National Ocean Policy. The National Ocean Policy ensures we are able…