Ed Royce

If the gentleman would yield, I want to make it clear, we passed legislation to direct what Mr. Joaquin has suggested here.

The open nature of the Internet is increasingly under assault by authoritarian regimes, regimes like China, that aggressively promote a vision of cyber sovereignty.

Authoritarian regimes would love to globalize this censorship.

Earlier this Congress, I introduced legislation requiring that the GSEs increase credit risk transfers with the private sector.

I plan to introduce legislation to direct the Office of Management and Budget to identify other areas of the Federal balance sheet where derisking could be used to protect taxpayers.

what we in the House have advocated here in the legislation that we passed that I authored, along with Mr. Engel, has been to call for a Cyber Diplomacy Act

We are here, really, to reaffirm a very important commitment that we have to one of our closest partners in the Middle East, and that is Jordan. I think all of us agree that, over the generations, it has been astounding the way Jordan has…

I am a very strong believer that effective regulation of interstate commerce should be done on a very uniform basis.

I introduced this bill. It is a bipartisan measure, the Credit Score Competition Act.

I would like to close if the gentleman has no other speakers. I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1415

It is this committee's expectation that this deadline be met.

We passed a resolution, 415 to 2, which we drafted, calling for additional sanctions on those responsible for human rights abuses.

In closing, I would like to share with the body that I led a delegation to Taipei this last summer, and I was there when Taiwan pledged to donate $800,000 in disaster relief to Houston. That was in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. It is…

We must make certain that international inspectors have access to possible nuclear sites.

If we are going to end this horrific trade, we have got to start by cutting traffickers off from their financial system.

With all due respect to the arguments on moral equivalency with respect to Iran, the reality is that this is a government that starts its morning prayers with: ``Death to America. Death to Israel.'' The Ayatollah makes it clear he means…

I want to thank our chairman emeritus, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Thank you for your work on this bill.

It is going to help law enforcement and financial institutions report and identify suspected human traffickers so that they can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

This is the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act. It is going to help law enforcement and financial institutions report and identify suspected human traffickers so that they can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Trafficking has devastated tens of millions of lives around the world.

Again, I thank the author, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Engel, and I thank Congresswoman Norma Torres, as well, and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Mike McCaul, for their work on this important…

Make no mistake, the government is now run by an authoritarian thug. That is the unfortunate fact.

The reality is that the people of North Korea have accomplished amazing things.

the demise of democracy in Cambodia, the ongoing human rights nightmare in Cambodia, the violations that the Hun Sen regime is committing against basic human rights and the rule of law, this is the reason for this hearing.

Hun Sen's regime, frankly, has become thuggish. It continues to crack down on the political opposition, arresting and beating those who speak out and oppose in any way they rule.