Ed Royce

I was vehemently against the Bush administration's decision to remove North Korea from the SST list.

If I could just ask, were you addressing the chairman when you said Iran fears Israel and therefore is developing a nuclear weapons capability?

We have had test after test. We have had broken promise after broken promise.

I hope that China will finally understand that the North Korean regime is a threat to stability in that region of the world.

We appreciate your patience with this and this opportunity, and Ranking Member Brady.

The fact that North Korea warned today that it would cancel the Korean cease fire in retaliation for more sanctions only reaffirms the threat to our ally South Korea.

The regime is endemically hostile to the United States and warrants watching.

We have had de facto peace in Korea, unstable at times, but it has been the longest period of peace in the Korean Peninsula.

We both view the North Korean regime as a threat and one that needs to be contained.

I think I can speak to that, because there is a tremendous feeling of patriotism--I am thinking for the moment about the individual with extensive CIA field experience, who came to work for us and took a pay cut to do it, because of the…

If I might yield, Mr. Speaker, 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Chabot), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. {time} 0930

I just want to take a moment and thank Mr. Engel for the forceful leadership that he gave us on this issue as we were meeting with the Governments of China and Japan and South Korea. Mr. Speaker, I would now yield 2 minutes to the…

What I want to share with the body is that, on February 12 of 2013, North Korea successfully carried out a nuclear test--a test in flagrant violation of numerous international sanctions and of numerous agreements that North Korea has made…

We need allies and we cannot always be in the lead in every theater in this conflict.

I am worried about prematurely taking that step.

We can't turn our backs on it. It doesn't mean we have to lead the effort, but we must always be conscious about the effort and we must contribute wherever we can to its solution.

over the last 6 years, this particular franchise of al-Qaeda, in just the money that they raised by taking hostages and ransoming them, had raised $50 million.

I think that it is incumbent upon all of us in the international community to encourage as strongly as possible the Malian Government to follow this roadmap and live up to the time table that's outlined there.

I think Ambassador Carson expressed well our concern.

I applaud France, and I yield back.

I think as we look at the overarching goal here, it is really to get private capital back in, right?

The United States will not accept a Palestinian Government that includes Hamas.

I think one of the great advantages in our Bill of Rights enumerated in our Constitution is the commitment to freedom of speech.

As bad as it was, the step taken at the ITU conference in December was only the first in a planned series by these authoritarian regimes.

The creativity and innovation of the Internet can flourish only in an environment free from intrusive government regulation.