I want to thank my colleague from Illinois (Mr. Dold) for introducing this legislation to end a failed Federal program, the FHA Refinance Program. This amendment ensures that the savings realized from ending this program go directly to…

I have an amendment at the desk made in order under the rule. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, line 12, after the period insert the following: ``All such unexpended…

I dearly hope that we come up with solutions and means to pay for those, because we all on both sides of the aisle want a cleaner environment, but also want jobs to function for these things.

This week, 13 Coptic Christians in Egypt were killed in clashes with Muslims. Recently, a church in the town of Sol was burned to the ground, leading many Christians to flee the village in fear of their lives. This comes only 2 months…

This hearing today is not about religion, with all due respect. It is about terrorists.

I want to thank the Chair for this desperately needed hearing. I want to thank your courage and your leadership for bringing this to the forefront.

For my colleagues on the other side, I want to tell my good friend that I will be with you shoulder-to-shoulder in hearings for the Ku Klux Klan and any other racist group that defiles this country.

You can't clean it with dirty water.

It is an irony and an outrage that we are wasting time when Muslims are sitting before us.

I would like to ask unanimous consent to submit into the record an FBI law enforcement bulletin regarding two prison radicalization.

This breathing document is in pain.

I have no quarrel with this committee getting information, and making sure that that information is utilized in the right way.

Very briefly, let me define what my political correctness is. It happens to be this document, the Constitution.

We would be better off if we would have a hearing speaking about the importance of human intelligence.

It is an outrage, and as you well know, you already said there are not enough--there are too many mosques in this country.

I think it is clear that that is the case.

If you want to know about the devastation of a nation, these are the innocent Somalis who are fleeing a famine that is the worst famine in the history of Africa at this point.

I would like to put this into the record.