This is a generational opportunity for tens of millions of people to enjoy a better form of governance and an opportunity for a better future, and I think we need to seize this opportunity to assist them in every way.

We want American help. We remember America was with us when we became independent in the 1960s.

But there is no doubt in my mind that if they see an opportunity, just as they saw an opportunity in Somalia, as they have seen an opportunity in Yemen, they are going to do what they can to influence the outcome.

If the Egyptian people don't see any progress in the economy, we may trade one authoritarian regime for another.

Are we losing the battle for hearts and minds if they are going to be celebrating assassins where the victims are people preaching tolerance?

What has made these revolutions so powerful is they have been indigenous. They have not been at the tip of the American spear or imposed from outside.

So I am all in favor of whatever investment we can make in these people-powered revolutions.

It is deeply distressing to me that a war crimes tribunal prosecuting people responsible for that genocide should be stymied for lack of resources.

I think this period is one of the most promising, potentially, that we have seen in decades, with the transition that is going on in the Middle East and North Africa.

I am one of those who believes that, absent international authorization, the United States, acting alone, would be stepping into a situation whose consequences are unforeseeable.

Over the last several weeks we've seen some of the most dramatic and potentially promising events in the Arab world in perhaps a generation. We saw what began with the actions of a fruit vendor in Tunisia spiral and take down not only the…

I also rise in opposition to this amendment. As my ranking member, Mrs. Lowey from New York pointed out, the funding for international operations and programs in the CR is already below levels enacted under President Bush. This would cut…

We can have reasonable debates about the deficit situation and the actions that should be taken, but I don't think the hyperbole that we are hearing is adding to the quality of the debate. When the Legal Services Corporation is described…

I fully support the effort to restore funding to the COPS Hiring Program. We should absolutely look for savings and reduce costs in the Federal budget, but we should not be withdrawing support for law enforcement while cities and towns…

In the United States, access to justice shouldn't be available only for those who can afford it. I think most Americans recognize that we have an out-of-control deficit and debt, that we need tough action to deal with that, and I think…

I am a big fan and supporter of our manned spaceflight program, which I think has just an extraordinary record of achievement and is enormously important to our position in the world in terms of our leadership in science. It is also very…

I appreciate your yielding, Mr. Chairman, and I agree with you. First of all, I appreciate your opposition to the amendment. The big entitlement programs are going to have to be addressed, and what we are doing here in dealing with this…

Last Wednesday, this Nation and the world witnessed the orderly transfer of power in this House when Nancy Pelosi passed the Speaker's gavel on to Speaker John Boehner. That simple act occurred without violence. It occurred without…

For the past three Congresses, I've been an enthusiastic cosponsor of the DREAM Act, which I see as an essential component of comprehensive immigration reform. No child raised in America should be permanently penalized for the immigration…

I rise in strong support, Madam Speaker, of H.R. 2701, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. This long overdue bill is the work of a committee that has been diligently pursuing, for years, our national security. H.R…

I rise today to speak in support of legislation granting the Congressional Gold Medal to the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, commonly known as the ``Go for Broke'' regiments, as well as…

I rise in support of H.R. 1469, the Child Protection Improvements Act. The Child Protection Improvements Act would ensure that any mentoring organization or child-serving nonprofit will be able to obtain an affordable, fast, and accurate…

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Last week's interdiction by the Israeli Navy of a small flotilla of ships trying to run the blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza ignited a firestorm around the world. Foreign commentators, who look askance at the Jewish state in the best of…

We depend on them to protect our families, our homes and our forests, and they dedicate their time, and sometimes their lives, to that calling.