Ed Royce

During last week's Asia Subcommittee hearing on North Korea, I asked our panel directly whether the Kim regime should be relisted. Every witness on that panel replied that North Korea was a state sponsor of terror.

Thank you all. I appreciate the work you do.

This includes food aid, which for too long has been treated as an entitlement for some shippers rather than as a humanitarian program meant to save lives.

we can catch the bad actors while still facilitating access to capital and access to credit for small businesses

I think that is a pretty good dialogue there or description of what would happen if we were to do that.

I am concerned about how cuts would impact other priorities, including efforts to combat terrorists, poachers, human traffickers.

combating money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism is obviously something we all agree is critical to protecting our citizens

No amount of aid can overcome corruption. No amount of aid can overcome statist economic policies and weak property rights.

I think Congress needs to be fully engaged. I look forward to continuing to work with the members here as we seek to ensure that the international affairs budget is efficient and effective.

Three cheers for President Trump for, at last, getting rid of the waste in our foreign affairs, in our foreign aid that often goes to crooks and enemies of the United States.

the system as currently designed is outdated and is ineffective.

While it proposes an overall cut of some 32 percent, the budget 'protects' several programs that enjoy strong congressional support.

And I haven't seen any real evidence that the beneficiary of that is the consumer either, by the way.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for holding this hearing as well.

I think for political, or as I call it emotional reasons, so that they wanted to look good.

Today, Congressman Blumenauer and I introduced a bill, H.R. 1558, the Repeatedly Flooded Communities Preparation Act.

The Federal Reserve has a tendency to overreact in bad times, creating bubbles in the economy.

It is not surprising that the Fed makes these mistakes because their job is, in fact, impossible.

I do strongly believe that a rule-based system would improve the performance.

There is going to be no loans guaranteed through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to Ethiopia until they treat this American citizen right and do justice by him.

I actually have bipartisan legislation with Mr. Blumenauer from Oregon on this, and one of the things we seek to do here is empower communities to tackle this problem.

And, listen, Benghazi was bad. But if Benghazi was bad let me tell you something, the Russians trying to take over our elections with all that they did, that is very, very bad.

I usually only have three or four witnesses. But in this particular case, if we are going to have a full conversation about this agreement, we do need to think about all the negotiating parties and all the parties affected that are not at…

There is a benefit to higher capital standards. They reduce the risk of a future financial crisis and bailouts.

The cost-benefit analysis is difficult work. And I agree. It is not easy.