
Madam Speaker, in closing, I would like to build on something that our colleague from California (Mr. Hunter) had said earlier about the need to fight and defeat the enemy in Afghanistan so that our children or our grandchildren don't have…
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Madam Speaker, in closing, I would like to build on something that our colleague from California (Mr. Hunter) had said earlier about the need to fight and defeat the enemy in Afghanistan so that our children or our grandchildren don't have…

Madam Speaker, I am proud to be an original cosponsor of H.R. 4573. As my colleagues have explained, this bill calls on the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to take certain measures to enable Haiti's debt relief and to provide additional…

Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to my colleague, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns), a member of the Veterans' Affairs and Energy and Commerce Committees.

I'm so pleased to yield 6 minutes to the chairman of the House Republican Conference and a wonderful and esteemed member of our Committee on Foreign Affairs, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence). (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission…

Madam Speaker, I'm pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida, Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite, a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Mr. Speaker, I proudly yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McKeon), the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. McKEON. Mr. Speaker, I rise with the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton), my chairman…

At this time I'd like to yield 5 minutes to an esteemed member of our House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as the Judiciary Committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe).

Mr. President, today I am submitting a concurrent resolution recognizing the life of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died on February 23, 2010, in Cuban custody, and calling for a continued focus on the promotion of internationally recognized…

Madam Speaker, on rollcall No. 98, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' ____________________

Secretary Carter and General Moore, both of your written statements to the committee state that you expect F-35 training operations to begin at Eglin Air Force Base in late 2010 with LRIP 1 aircraft.

How much of that assistance is going into education, where you can send a kid for $50 a year to school?

It should end now, while our servicemembers are fighting in two wars and at risk throughout the world.

We must meet our obligation to the widow and orphan with the same sense of honor as was the service their loved one had rendered.

what is your view of the collective efforts of the U.S. Government, such as with Voice of America, Alhurra, or ongoing capacity-building efforts, to CVE messages and ideology today?

what areas of the U.S. Government's CVE efforts are in most need of our attention and how would you address these shortcomings?

how is the decision made by SOCOM, Department of State (DOS), and the GCCs to deploy a special operations team to a certain country and is that decision reevaluated over time?