Dana Rohrabacher

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and let me note that my very first job when I was a go-for in the news business was to read the following into a machine...

I would hope that what you are doing now in your restructuring of NOAA, so that you now have a climate service, that that does not distract from the important work that your organization has been doing in terms of weather.

we would love to send in people to help them organize democracy, so that elements don't think they have to fight, but they can rely on ballots rather than the bullets.

And that climate change is something that now the EPA has expanded a definition of human health to include climate change.

If we stand there when people are being slaughtered right in front of us, that is a message, too.

How much money would you expect--all these things I support. That is great. We all do.

I find that to be, at least after looking at the justification of that, to be a stretching of the definition of human health.

anything that we do that would in any way encourage the Iranian regime would also be contrary to what we are supposedly standing for in the rest of this area, volatile area.

And that is very important to a lot of people, especially in California.

Well, that's what's been happening to our relationship with Communist China for the last 40 years.

This is an issue that really needs a close look.

Brad Sherman has suggested that we pull most favored nation status from China if it continues in its unfair trade practices.

Let's just note that there's been a massive transfer of wealth from the American people to China.

I thought I would, by the way, I would like a copy of that report in May as well, if you could send that in my direction?

How can you have free trade, Mr. Brookes, if the other side of the equation is controlled trade?

If we put up with this, shame on us, not shame on the Chinese.

Who's watching out for the people of the United States of America?

There's nobody in the United States Government that's responsible when entities from overseas, especially in China come in and basically commit extortion.

I'm a free trader, but I don't see how you can have free trade unless the people who are trading are both free.

It's a travesty. It's a travesty. We give a lot of these companies who end up going over to China to do manufacturing, a lot of them have been the recipient of major R&D grants by the United States Government.

We have to go into discussion. There are two items, legislative items that might touch on what we're talking about today.

it is the responsibility of the U.S. Government to enforce our laws more effectively and more aggressively than we have done in the past.

It's time to take a look at those policies that have permitted this transfer of wealth and the transfer of technology.

Six billion dollars is what we spend in the United Nations.

I am not talking about retreating from the world. I am not talking about isolationism. I am talking about making sure that we do things in a way that is more likely to achieve our global objective, which is a more peaceful, a freer and…