Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Certainly, the President of the United States knows how to say ``no.'' He says ``no'' to the Keystone pipeline, turning down its application just 3 months ago. This gives the United States access to probably the…

He kills those 20,000 direct jobs. There's millions of jobs, if we just used our own resources. Do you know that we can be completely energy secure using our own resources? But this administration lacks the will to be able to do that.

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.

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.

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

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?

I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, may I submit that my friend, who just spoke on the other side, maybe was a victim of some poor staff work that took some liberties to revise and extend the real bill that we are debating here today…

The only ones that are least disadvantaged by that are the biggest entities that have a houseful of lawyers that could go over it and read it. Rural Nebraska doesn't have the opportunity to do that and reply. So giving them sufficient time…

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?

A child's pain should know no international boundary, and a child's suffering is enough due to the separation of their family unit.

American leadership and innovation was responsible for the remarkable technological breakthrough known as the Internet which spurred the advent of globalization and this unprecedented industrial revolution of our new century.

I do frequently hear from constituents who express serious concerns about the disposition of their taxpayer dollars, particularly those going to foreign aid.

I appreciate you raising the issue. But I would like you to address something that is of concern to me.

I remain opposed to the increase in money for family planning and reproductive health--especially when all other global health accounts decline.

Adopt other key provisions of the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act (H.R. 3236, introduced by Reps. Tim Walz and Jeff Fortenberry).