Dana Rohrabacher

I think we have to be principled and link our funding to demonstrations on the ground, building civil society.

Today we hope that we will be sending the message that the people of the United States are standing in solidarity with those oppressed Christians who are suffering persecution in Egypt.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Conyers The Acting CHAIR. It is…

What we are doing is taking away the right of every independent inventor, a right that he has had since 1836, to say that if a government official in the Patent Office is doing something illegal to deny him his patent, this small inventor…

We hear over and over again that this is about patent trolls and hinting that there are illegitimate patents that we are talking about. We are talking about legitimate patents; and the patent troll, let us just note, who is he going…

This is an important day, an important era that America needs to recognize that human rights, religious liberties, freedoms of conscience are superior.

The President needs to hear you, look you in the eyes and hear what you have got to say.

There will not be peace in Burma, for the Burmans or anyone else, until compromises are reached with living with those tribal people, and this is a 1,000-year-old situation.

I don't think good conversation accounts for anything, especially--in fact, good conversation with people who are in the process of conducting military operations that cause a great number of innocent civilians to die among the tribal…

If there is a message the Government of Burma needs to hear from the Congress, it is you are not ready to be accepted into the family of free nations yet.

Israel must have the capabilities to deal with a broad spectrum of potential threats.

I will hopefully work with you on your project. I don't know if we can get it done, but we will see what we can do.

I would like to first of all give my regards to Dennis Tito here who years ago took the initiative to show that one person could make a difference and could inspire a whole Nation.

It is inspiring to see you doing this.

I call up for H. Resolution 188, calling upon the Government of Turkey to facilitate the reopening of the Ecumenical Theological School at Halki without condition or further delay.

There is no better message that they could send to us... than the seminary in Halki and making sure that that was open.

We are asking them to send us a message today, send the rest of the world a message today, that they do respect... human rights.

Our message to them is that, yes, we are concerned that the Turkish Government not be molded after other governments that have a certain tie to the Islamic faith.

So if we don't, Mr. Chairman, we are putting average American citizens, we are making them vulnerable...

But we are facilitating some of the worst scum in the world, not even in our own country...

We are predicting that the American people, unless there is a dramatic change in the way things are being put together, that families throughout this country will face huge problems, their bank accounts will be hacked into or maybe there…

In fact, sometimes, Administrator, they are asked to give assessments of their own work in other words, we are now paying someone to give an unbiased assessment of something that is his or her work.

The question isn't whether they are----

You think government employees are immune from the same sort of bias that you would find in an----

Do you consider that the recipient of EPA grants... would compromise that person's ability to have an independent judgment?