I yield back the balance of my time, Madam Chair. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Fortenberry). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment Offered by Mr. Flores

Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey).

I think it is worth noting that your background and commitment to this region provides a deep reservoir of experience.

My priorities for the region are threefold and intertwined. First, it is to prevent widescale conflict, protect Israel...

Madam Speaker, as I was shopping for some family items recently, I noted how difficult it is to find items that are made in America. While American manufacturing is, encouragingly enough, on the rebound, products ranging from hairbrushes…

Let me be clear. I didn't say the United States.

It doesn't function well, you are correct. But somehow it functions.

The United States is not going to stand by idly and watch this kind of brutality. It is not who we are, and the times in which that has happened we go back and question ourselves.

But I think the central question here is, what does a post-Assad regime governance structure look like?

Are there some trade practices or business constraints that we could re-examine that, again, would put us on a better competing field for African commerce?

the Chinese take the stuff and we beg them to help the people in Africa.

To the United States, Africa is becoming a lost continent.

China has a choice: It can join the responsible community of nations to aid and do business with Africa in an ethical fashion or stand by its 'friendship' with despots and tyrants as countless more lives are lost across the continent.

American companies are at a disadvantage because we are not going to play by those same rules.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to discuss the budget, contrasting the Republican plan, which would actually strengthen and extend Medicare, and the President's plan that would actually maybe allow Medicare to go bankrupt only 2 years later…

The Global Online Freedom Act seeks to integrate these foundational human rights principles into the complexities of our participation in the vast global technology marketplace.

Establishing the Office of the International Child Abductions within the State Department, I'm hopeful, may impart a focused and whole of government approach to returning abducted children to the United States.

What more important function can our Government undertake than to prevent the abduction of American children?