Ed Royce

It takes two to tango. North Korea was not shipping these on their own.

And that is why we are trying to jump-start this beyond just sanctions within North Korea.

North Korea is a human rights disaster, and as I said before, the North Korean Government bears full responsibility for all the misery that they inflict on their people.

Sanctions are important, we need to implement them.

We are going to bring this legislation up again that we passed into the Senate last year.

U.S.-backed groups have seen no increase in support in the past several months.

We are tired of war. We want to bring our men and women home, which is another reason why working with local partners is so important.

Kurdish and Iraqi security forces have pushed ISIS out of specific key infrastructure areas.

The Kurdish Peshmerga remain the most effective fighting force against ISIS.

I am hopeful that the recent accord announced between Baghdad and Erbil will speed support for the Kurds.

But we must not forget that, in so many places around the world, freedom, dignity, and justice are under constant attack.

They only had small arms and, as a consequence, they called in for air strikes.

We can be still trying to decide after we have lost the ability to reverse what is going on in Syria.

I would just point out that I put out bipartisan legislation to change that to allow us to directly sell the weapons they needed to the Kurds.

He said he filed that legislation.

We have conducted only about 1,000 air strikes to date.

I want to recognize the efforts of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Its leadership should be commended for this bipartisan effort to strengthen the Coast Guard in a time of heightened security threats to the United States…

Make no mistake, deal or no deal, we will not continue--we will not overlook Iran's abysmal human rights record.

Vladimir Putin's aggression poses a direct threat to the interests of the United States and our allies.

The United States is a Pacific power. We have a vital interest in freedom of navigation and overflight in these disputed areas and unimpeded lawful commerce.

I will share with the Members here that I rise in strong support of this legislation to extend for another 10 years the United States- United Kingdom Mutual Defense Agreement. This agreement has governed our nuclear cooperation with the…

I can't stress enough to our negotiators in Vienna and our P5+1 partners how seriously we take the implementation of a strict verification and monitoring process.

I want to thank my friend Congressman Brad Schneider for his service to the people of the 10th District of Illinois.

This resolution reaffirms our position that Russia's aggression is unacceptable. But I support taking even stronger action.

I truly can say that I think the Foreign Affairs Committee is the best darn committee in all of Congress.