For most of my tenure in Congress, I have advocated for full employment.

unemployment is a significant factor in people losing faith in their government.

It is important to note who is refusing to come to the negotiating table without preconditions. And that, unfortunately, are the Palestinians.

Israel is America's aircraft carrier, so to speak, our friendly partner aircraft carrier of democracy and freedom and strength to stop common enemies, like Iran.

I can't imagine why the United States would even participate in producing any Security Council product.

Do you share those concerns? Do you see any Iranian involvement in the protests and demonstrations and uprising in Bahrain?

Iran, to me, still remains the number-one threat to the United States' national security.

Without the state of Israel, America would be far less safe.

high unemployment in our own country... could lead to significant number of American people waking up one day without faith or belief in their Government's capacity to solve the nation's problems?

With all of the slaughter and genocide and the human trafficking and all the other horrific things going on in the world, they have a standing committee only to criticize the Jewish state of Israel.

the House passed H.R. 1, an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2011 that made huge reductions in global food security, climate technology funds, and MDBs, multilateral development banks.

Shouldn't the U.S. finally walk away from and stop paying, we continue to pay billions of dollars over the years to the U.N. that has an organization like this Human Rights Council, which obviously is a total farce.

Isn't there a point when just for, frankly, our own credibility's sake we should walk away, have other alternatives, strengthen other alternatives--I mentioned one, the Community of Democracies--and not continue to pretend that the U.N. is…

As an avid water fowl hunter and a member of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, we all know how important those dollars are.

I think we need to do more there.

I think that is a great example of how we can take that source of income there and, as you said, leverage it in some pretty powerful ways and with partners who not only by themselves promote those efforts, but in conjunction with the…

I hope that you re-examine the cancellation of leases off of Virginia for oil and gas.

the President said he would veto that legislation.