Ed Royce

We share your anger. We share your frustration with the position that you have been put in.

I commend President Obama for advocating for the release of your husband and I know that he has spoken to Iran's President on this.

It seems to me to be folly in the extreme that we are engaging in a negotiation on nuclear--potential nuclear weapons, when Americans are being held hostage by a dictatorship.

Right now, our leverage is being negotiated away at the table and I am concerned with everything that isn't part of the negotiation right now including returning your loved ones back to your homes so you can be able to start enjoying…

Iran has to change its ways in three ways: Abandon its nuclear desires; treat both their own citizens and their visitors with a level of respect and rule of law that they clearly do not at this time; and stop their attempt to destabilize…

It would just be ludicrous and outrageous for us to have a deal with Iran that doesn't include the bringing home of our hostages.

I call again, as we all do, upon the administration to make this even more of a priority.

So you have my commitment that I won't vote for a deal. I will advocate tirelessly with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to make sure that no deal is signed until your family members come home.

I would like to also say thank you to Congressman Kildee, Congressman Deutch for their leadership on this effort.

the committee will be passing a resolution that calls for Iran to release all detained U.S. citizens immediately.

I thank the gentleman. Congratulations here to Chairman Shuster and Ranking Member DeFazio for getting this important bill to the floor today. We are certainly proud to support our men and women serving in the United States Coast Guard…

I thank the chairman for yielding. So I just want to say this: Nigeria and its neighbors--Chad, Niger, Cameroon--have been making headway in the fight against Boko Haram. They have cleared a number of northern Nigerian towns. Now we have…

I very much appreciate Chairman Thornberry and the Armed Services Committee for working collaboratively on this important amendment. In speaking on behalf of this Royce-Maloney amendment, I want to recognize the leadership of…

I yield myself such time as I may consume, Madam Speaker. When we think about Hezbollah, we think about an organization that was once a limited regional threat. Today, it really is global. It is an organization conducting terrorist and…

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Dold), a member of the Committee on Financial Services, a cosponsor of the bill, and someone who has been relentless in warning about the threat of Iran and Hezbollah.

That is correct, Mr. Sherman. I see no way that a failure to override a Presidential veto or otherwise enact a joint resolution of disapproval would be construed as Congress approving a bad Iran deal. It would be that the Congress didn't…

As we have heard today, Iran's rush to a nuclear weapon is a mortal threat to the United States and to our allies. And when I say it is a threat, consider for a minute the fact that Iran has, with its Quds forces, forces right now in…

Now we are told in Vietnam that we are going to get free access to their markets, except they don't have freedom and they don't have markets.

We will not let off the gas in pressing for human rights progress in partner countries.

And I intend to see it passed out of the Senate. So that will give us additional leverage, Mr. Smith, on the human rights issue.

The fact is, when you include all our FTAs, including NAFTA, we have seen a 425 percent increase in our trade deficit with FTA countries.

The TPA process is transparent.

Under the TPP agreement, the Vietnamese--and they understand this--are obligated to accept labor unions and the right of assembly and the right to organize.

If there is a breach with a high likelihood of harm being done to the consumer, should the merchant be responsible for the costs associated with that breach?

When I was in Vietnam, the head of the Buddhist church the venerable Thich Quang Do was under house arrest, but I did talk to him about these trade agreements.