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I also believe when and if sanctions relief is warranted it should be completely human rights-based as that's, I think, in my opinion, the way to get to any other interest of the United States in the long term.

Mr. Speaker, I have no more speakers. I propose to close. Mr. Speaker, this crisis can be stopped in its tracks. There is no need for millions to die. The world needs to step up as it did in the Ebola crisis. The U.S. needs to continue to…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in strong support of the U.S. Wants to Compete for a World Expo Act. Let me thank our chairman, Ed Royce, for his leadership of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. I also want to…

This government has to at some point find its way to the path of reform without thinking that that's a zero sum game.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my strong support for H. Res. 187, Relating to Efforts to Respond to the Famine in South Sudan, as amended, which passed out of the Foreign Affairs…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge this Congress to work together to avoid a shutdown of the Federal Government this week. We must pass a clean funding bill that Members from both parties can support, without any ideological riders. We…

These are discoveries that are not just unique to who we are as the United States but to who we are as humanity.

This is an exciting hearing, but the only definitive answer possible is the affirmative.

Well, again, I thank the Chairman for holding this hearing.

We need people to be enthusiastic about science, so my hat's off to you, and I encourage you to do the best you can.

I am extremely concerned about the provocation and direction this administration is taking to address the North Korea threat.

The problem we have, the problem that this committee has not fixed, is that the credit rating agency is the only game where the umpire is elected and paid by one of the teams.

This CHOICE Act takes some good bills that passed this committee with overwhelming and bipartisan majorities, puts them together with a lot more bad bills that do not have bipartisan support, and gives Members no choice.

They control our free speech through their ownership, and they control our free speech in China through all the devices that you have identified.

I opposed the first five drafts of Dodd-Frank because they provided permanent unlimited bailout authority.

We are told that it is the government's fault, overregulation. But you cannot say that overregulation caused the panic of 1814...