I thank Chairman Randy Forbes. Mr. Speaker, when I was first elected, one of the first persons to greet me was my classmate of 2001, Chairman Randy Forbes. From the beginning, I saw what a gentleman he was, what a dedicated Member of…

Would you agree with me, General, that the Congress is going to shoot down more planes than any enemy that we can think of in the near term?

Would you agree with me when you rank the threats to the military, you would have to put Congress and the President in that mix if we do not fix sequestration?

If sequestration goes into effect, are you going to lose marines?

Do you want to do revenue to fix it? I will do revenue. But what I am not going to do is keep playing this silly game.

I find that as repugnant as what the House is doing.

I've been in Congress 22 years and been through five or six secretaries of energy. You're by far one of the best and you're going to be missed here.

There is international consensus that it would be very difficult if not impossible to meet our climate change goals by 2050 without this in place.

Without additional investment in the electricity sector--if we try to limit global warming to the 2 degree scenario without it it is going to cost $2 trillion over the next 40 years.

For the record, Chairwoman Ros-Lehtinen was a great chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. She was very fair to me when I was a freshman member.

All with families. Mr. McCAIN. All with families--barrel bombs, poison gas. By the way, there has been a recurrence of poison gas. Six million people are now refugees and it is putting an enormous strain on Europe. We can look around the…

Mr. President, I want to associate myself with everything my friend said. Here is our dilemma. There are two forces inside of Syria that are a threat to us, the region, and the people in Syria-- ISIL, al-Nusra, and the other radical Sunni…

I want to applaud the efforts of Representatives Wasserman Schultz and Ros-Lehtinen for highlighting the U.S. congressional concerns about the events in Venezuela and Nicaragua.

I was proud to work with my good friend from Florida, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen and our Chairman Duncan, among several other colleagues from both sides of the aisle to introduce and pass H.R. 5708, the Nicaragua Investment Conditionality…

Such actions suggest flagrant disrespect by the Ortega Government for commonly accepted principles of government-to-government relations.

I think Nicaragua does. You are a diplomat. I am a politician.

I think if a country is a recipient of the money from the U.S. taxpayers for economic assistance... these countries ought to be a little more friendly to the United States.

I think we are approaching a point where the OAS is becoming less effective because they continue to kind of deviate or water down their traditional stances.