Brad Sherman

We need to pass the reauthorization of TRIA.

I am not trading anything for anybody. Go, America.

We are number one. Go, America.

I want to squeeze in another question. I have made the point before. Their currency is undervalued. I hope you do even more--

I hope that your program would focus on the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons, particularly from the north and the east.

I hope that your bureau would focus on the Hindu minorities of Pakistan and Bangladesh.

If you watch American television you would think foreign policy is as simple as a cheap Western.

I think we are getting a little carried away. It is nice to be producing more but the chances that we export more petroleum than we import are roughly the same as Vladimir Putin winning a Nobel Peace Prize.

My old bros in the tax law industry have always found a loophole to prevent a tax.

I would point out that the U.S. Constitution has a provision designed to prevent that.

I don't think we should be fantasizing about the United States being a net exporter of oil.

The United States is not in our lifetime going to be a net exporter of oil, or even a net exporter of energy.

We're not safe from this. We declared that it was unacceptable for North Korea to have a nuclear weapon, and then went to sleep pretty much.

They have violated the four previous agreements that they signed to never pursue a nuclear weapons program.

The only thing worse than North Korea with six to eight weapons is a North Korea with 16 to 18 weapons.

Mr. Chairman, it was good to be with you, the chairman of the full committee, and others on our trip to Asia last month where we had a chance to meet with President Park, to view the DMZ, and even a few soldiers of the North Korea military.

This is a vibrant democracy that deserves our support.

I think that we have to institute governments to provide for governing those people who live in particular areas now.

Had the individual provisions been subject to a separate vote, an amendment process, I might have taken the same position.

I rise in reluctant opposition to the amendment, because I think that this resolution, this bill should be narrowly tailored to meet the immediate needs of the Ukraine.

Obviously, the movements of population committed by Hitler and Stalin were wrong.

The word 'suspend' means you suspend for a while.

I think we could achieve the purpose of this amendment by stopping it at the word 'Council' and eliminating the words 'until Russia ends its aggression against the Ukraine.'

I do think this is a case where an absolutist position is probably not going to prevail.

I haven't hesitated to criticize people in my own party over in the other body for not moving as quickly as possible to help the Ukraine.