U.S. trade deficits have grown more than 425 percent with FTA countries, while declining slightly with non-FTA countries.
Ed Royce
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Edward R. Royce is a former U.S. Representative for California's 39th congressional district, serving from 1993 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Royce was known for his work on foreign affairs and trade issues during his tenure in Congress. He served as the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he focused on international relations and security matters. Royce was also involved in legislation aimed at supporting religious institutions and community service initiatives.
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.
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.
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?
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.
They were the one effective force not just fighting ISIS but taking in behind their front lines Christians, Yazidis, other minorities.
What I am doing today as well is introducing legislation to prevent trafficking in Cultural Property Act.
We allowed them to take some 14 major cities, culminating in taking Mosul, without the use of air power at the time to stop them.
Thirty percent of these Kurdish battalions are females. They are women fighting on the front lines against ISIS and they are fighting without adequate equipment.
I would like to express my support for H. Res. 235, which raises awareness on the ongoing efforts by our government.
I wholeheartedly support H.R. 1853, which closely reflects Congress's support for Taiwan.
I thank my colleague from California, and I also rise today on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Mr. Speaker, that period of time represented a generation of Armenians, a generation lost to assassination, to depravation, to…
Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 500 offered by the Honorable Edward R. Royce, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, and chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The consequences of this negotiation--this olive branch, to put it in the words of the administration, that is being extended--is not an Iran that is changing its behavior.
the caliber of propaganda has become much more clever than that which was disseminated then.
Russia's propaganda machine is really at this time in overdrive and part of the focus... seems to be to subvert democratic stability.
Generals, we look to you for leadership in clearly explaining our strategy to degrade and defeat ISIS.
Most Americans would be puzzled to learn about a lot of this and I think the piecemeal attacks that the Obama administration has been systematically using here has been squandering our air power advantage.
The goal of ISIS, I think, are pretty clear. It is to wreck everything and every person in its path to establish a caliphate and then fight to expand that caliphate.
This is a humanitarian catastrophe. Assad has blood on his hands and the Syrian people desperately need relief.
I think you know that I view our efforts to aid the opposition is too little, too late, and far too slow.





