Dana Rohrabacher

Well, thank you very much. I will have to say that this is somewhat of a miracle hearing my distinguished colleague from Virginia giving the benefit of the doubt to squirrellish charges against the Putin regime.

Turkey's democratic progress in the region is essential for our shared ideas.

it's time to put that aside so that we can advance the science that's necessary.

Turkey certainly has the right to protect itself from terrorism, but we should all be alarmed by the antidemocratic tactics that Turkey has been using against the Kurds, other minorities, and most widely, against Prime Minister Erdogan's…

One is to have a hearing specifically on the Kurds, and all of these issues dealing with 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…

let's just put the politics aside.

we have to do our jobs here in Congress and we have to be of a mind in providing NASA with the necessary resources and budgetary stability.

And while the United States must continue to support Turkey in the fight against ISIS and its absorption of refugees, we do it at our own peril if we let the issues of democracy and human rights fall by the wayside.

We have an increase of tensions, of killing, of violence.

So it is your position that his turnaround on that, what you considered to be a very pivotal negotiation, has actually spurred violence.

I really think Elon Musk is going to be on Mars before NASA gets there.

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.

we may find that reunification of Korea becomes a reality after all of these decades, and that reunification will itself create a new world that we have to deal with.

I will try not to go over time. First of all, let me thank the witnesses. Your testimony has been of great value to me and to this committee, and the points that you have made, all of you, I mean, you have made some very serious points and…

To say that that is absolutely unacceptable is to put it mildly.

Are we talking about bank accounts that are being controlled and who operate for the benefit of the leadership of--specific leaders of North Korea and decisionmakers there?

thanks to Ronald Reagan, we started down a path of building and focusing on defensive systems, which make a lot more sense to me.

It is ironic that we seem--I believe the United States and the world is entering a new era. The Cold War is being left behind, a long way, and even the post-Cold War era is being left behind now.

that type of activity is intolerable, and those thousands of North Korean workers that are being sent overseas, and all of their salary being given to the government, that is, I believe, virtual slavery.

the North Koreans are still holding Japanese hostages after decades. And I agree with him, that should not just be overlooked as if that is a past issue.

I rise in support of these three pieces of legislation.

China's organ harvesting, it is deplorable, and it is sad to me to think, again, that in 2016 this heinous practice is still occurring.

It is unbelievable that this happens in the 21st century.

The fact that the Chinese Communist leadership still feels compelled to murder the Falun Gong to try to destroy it as an option for the Chinese people speaks a lot about the nature of the Chinese regime today.