Ed Royce

It has been over 40 years since Taiwan last had a seat at the International Civil Aviation Organization. The volume of air traffic in and out of Taiwan's airports back then cannot be compared with that incredible volume of traffic…

I thank the gentleman from American Samoa, and I'd like to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen), chairman emeritus of the Foreign Affairs Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North…

I thank the gentleman. Chairman McKeon, I know you share my concern with this growing transnational threat of poaching. And I am hopeful that, looking ahead, we can work together to address any concerns that may exist and support a more…

I appreciate the Chairman's comments. Mr. McKEON. I reserve the balance of my time.

I have a colloquy on an amendment I intend to withdraw. Mr. Chairman, we are facing a serious and growing national security threat in central Africa. Rebel groups, long active in the region, have taken on a new form of illicit activity to…

The Federal Insurance Office was created to solve a problem.

Discussions on international insurance regulation always bring us back to the lack of uniformity in the State-based system.

State regulators and most certainly the NAIC are structurally and constitutionally incapable of representing U.S. insurance interests abroad.

What was contemplated at the time was not simply adding another Federal voice to international discussions regarding insurance issues.

We face a catastrophe in the future if we don't fund and sustain adequate funding in both basic and applied research at our universities, land grant schools, and others.

And if we are not going to use the leverage that we have in order to check these impulses to use violence--it is not responsible for the United States, with the leverage we have, not to make our actions match our words about this.

And the reason we are holding this hearing today is because we are demanding some semblance of responsibility with respect to human rights inside Vietnam.

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and I are proud to have the opportunity to welcome Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, the spiritual leader and head of Kauai's Hindu monastery. He has come here today to give the opening prayer on the Hindu…

How in the world can that constitute or justify the type of beating she went through and the type of prison sentence that she and her friend have been given?

You can't have 40 cases like this in 6 weeks and not have the United States take decisive action.

I know one thing is for sure and that is the report that I have read is the antithesis of the report from Human Rights Watch.

the reason we're not going to register, the reason--we don't want to change our text.

As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, let me make it abundantly clear here: the pipeline is going to be built. The question is whether it's going to be built west to Vancouver, and then we're going to see the product shipped to our…

The role of the State Department in the approval process is to determine whether the project serves the national interest. No one familiar with the facts would deny that it does, but the delays continue based on unfounded claims. The State…

I am proud to co-sponsor H.R. 850, and I urge my colleagues to support this bill.

This amendment essentially speeds up the reporting timeline, so that Congress is able to get this critical information as quickly as possible.

Thanks to the tools provided by Congress, sanctions have been stepped up over the past year and a half.

It is important that we make it clear that our quarrel is not with the Iranian people. Our quarrel is with the government of Ahmadinejad...

It is a privilege to be able to work with you on these amendments as well, and I want to thank and recognize the chair and the ranking member of the committee for putting forth such a strong bill that has received such strong bipartisan…

A loophole in existing sanctions has allowed, for example, the transfer of $6 billion of gold into Iran.