So, what we need to do is say not how can we possibly get the most important Presidential advisor on foreign policy to come into this room but how can we write an authorizing bill in this room that becomes law?

If we can drive down the price of oil and diminish the world's dependence upon the Middle East, we might avoid the next Iraq war and the environmental degradation that that involves.

Coal produces twice the greenhouse gases per kilowatt as any other fuel.

As to this century, I have seen this committee and the House of Representatives in general go from foreign policy makers to foreign policy kibitzers...

To tie the President's hands and say that we have to continue these sanctions... makes the bill more unwieldy.

We should recognize that we often support not territorial integrity but self-determination, and we are often somewhat inconsistent on this.

The only way to prevent the next bailout is to make sure that too-big-to-fail is too-big-to-exist.

The evidence is not encouraging.

Their counterargument on all this is they can't give us Dr. Afridi, because, oh my God, it will be some terrible circumstance in their country.

I have had the regulators here and I begged them and implored them to allow banks to make prime plus eight loans.

I fear that that is becoming increasingly true in Turkey.

Those millions of displaced people and hundreds of thousands of deaths could not occur if Assad didn't have allies.