Do you agree that allowing Iranian access to SWIFT undermines U.S. national security objectives?

I would think another decline in housing prices, or a failure to stabilize them and get them inching upward would be very bad for the economy, at least for the people I represent.

I want to commend you on everything you have done to keep short and long interest rates as low as possible.

But other than that, I haven't heard anybody in the room come up with a reason why that $1.3 billion is helping the United States.

Are any of you aware of any treaty ratified by the Senate that commits us to spend over $1 billion a year in aid to the Egyptian military?

We found that the State Department had too few licensing officers.

A lot of companies come before Congress and wrap their agenda in jobs or the national interest.

I introduced, with Don Manzullo, the Defense Trade Controls Improvement Act of 2009.

It is up to us to open the markets, to make sure that access to U.S. markets is contingent upon our access to theirs.

When we transfer manufacturing technology, we transfer our most valuable secrets, how to make the materials involved.

I think it would have much less of an effect, in that I think they could sell it elsewhere.

Material submitted for the record by the Honorable Brad Sherman