Dana Rohrabacher

Mr. Secretary, the whole world knows that Christians are being slaughtered in the Middle East. It's clear.

I happen to believe that our space effort is actually as important as American foreign policy to our future.

It's time for America to act and the excuse that we've got to study it, we got to ask the lawyers what the wording is, is this really preference or not, is unacceptable.

And we are talking about now there was a transfer of some kind of equipment and technology that was part, to North Korea.

It is export control and it is United Nations sanctions that this organization then will be conscious of in terms of enforcing those type of restrictions.

if a country is known to be a thief and knowingly been involved or at least maybe not directly but they are letting this happen, like North Korea, they steal intellectual property, or is it the fact that they are preceding with a nuclear…

I would hope that people who are taking the extreme positions on the environment are not undermining the well being of women and children who are trying to live their lives today.

If we are to have a nuclear-free Iran, and what we are really trying to do is trying to stop this...

But let me just note that just the sanctions for human rights abuses is not enough.

First of all, I would like to associate myself with the concerns about human rights that Congressman Smith outlined.

They are here as testimony to the fact that we have a brutal human rights abusing regime in Tehran.

Without Jordan, we all lose.

The other approach is that we need to be supporting those people...

I would hope that that type of gray--with the use of technology we can help solve that problem and we should certainly be sharing that technology with the people of Jordan.

I am concerned, frankly, and Madam Chairman, we see this here in the United States as well.

We should be working closely with anyone like that who is not a threat to us.

Thank you very much, Mr. Ambassador. Thank you for your service.

Frankly, we Republicans made a mistake when we backed our President when he said we have to get rid of Saddam Hussein.

And that has destabilized the whole region and led to many thousands more people being killed.

Today I rise to call my colleagues' attention and the attention of the public to the legislation I have proposed. The bill number is H.R. 4017. This act is the Save Christians from Genocide Act. I would ask my colleagues to consider…

journalists are being thrown in jail, opposition parties are being charged with criminal offenses, you know, corruption, et cetera, which I don't think that ever happens here, but it is happening there.

I think you made your case very well that Erdogan's government, they knew the Government of Turkey had some major steps aimed at trying to either of reconciliation or reach out to the Kurds.

In fact, if the Mars mission is to be successful, it appears to me that we need, if we were to say our goal is to have an American on Mars, we need to ask for volunteers and say you're not coming back, that's the only way that would be…

I will check to see if we have jurisdiction to hold such a hearing.

America needs to do great things, and we are doing great things, but inspire young people--we now have reusable rocket system being developed, and that came from the private sector.