Ed Royce

The step taken at the ITU conference in December was only the first in a planned series by these authoritarian regimes.

We need to get back into it.

It is unacceptable that the State Department has made it so difficult for Congress to exercise its oversight responsibility.

I think what gets lost in the 30-second sound bites on the fiscal cliff is the real cliff facing this country in the form of a massive wave of entitlement obligations. Government accounting doesn't tell the whole story. The actual…

Thank you very much, Chairman, for yielding. I rise in support of this resolution, of which I am an original cosponsor. I think Members are very rightly concerned now, as the same technology that's used to put a satellite into space is…

I thank the gentlelady. And I do think it's important, as we move forward here, to expand the State Department's rewards program. We have found a technique that works; and if we can deploy this in order to bring Joseph Kony to the bar of…

I would just like to begin by acknowledging the role that you have played in leading this committee.

I think all of us want to make sure that at the end of the day our diplomats are safer.

But with our tacit approval you had 18 weapons shipments, 20,000 tons of weapons.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I would like to begin by thanking Jeff Duncan and his staff, as well, for their good work on this legislation. But I would remind the Members, in terms of Iranian activity in this hemisphere, we think…

Please excuse my voice today, but I did want to rise in support of this legislation, and also to associate myself with the observations made by my colleague, Congressman Berman, and certainly with Congressman Burton. The legislation here…

I urge my colleagues to support the STEM Jobs Act. It is time to alter the current immigration system. It is time to substantially increase the proportion of new entrants with high levels of education and skills. Today, we are educating…

Very good. In that case, I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, it is said that Burma is undergoing a triple transition, from a military government to a more open and democratic government. Also, it's moving from conflict to peace, and it's…

We have no further speakers. I will close, if the gentlelady has no additional speakers.

This afternoon, Congress was finally able to present Aung San Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal. Congress' highest medal was awarded for her courageous and unwavering commitment to peace, to nonviolence, to human rights, and of course…

I would like to speak in favor of the resolution I coauthored with the Wisconsin delegation here in solidarity with the Sikh community in Oak Creek and the Sikh community all across the United States. In a strange coincidence, I had a…

So my question to the witnesses here is what happened to the political will to shut down these particular schools?

Without congressional pressure, I am sure the Haqqanis would have been under permanent review, further shortchanging our efforts against it.

the Haqqani network has been more important to the development and sustainment of al-Qaeda and the global jihad than any other single actor or group.

It would be impossible to negotiate any kind of an arrangement for Afghanistan with the Haqqanis that wouldn't end up being an embarrassment and a threat frankly to the United States long term.

We should no longer kowtow to Islamabad when they tell us that the Voice of America should broadcast only in Urdu.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is the North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011, and I want to thank Chairman Ros-Lehtinen and Ranking Member Berman for their support of this bill, and also I think we should thank…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I do rise in support of this measure. For too long, Taiwan has been left out of international organizations at the demand of China. Taiwan was denied access to the World Health Organization. It was…

I'm an original cosponsor of this bill, H.R. 1410. This is the Vietnam Human Rights Act. And I guess it's no surprise to a lot of us that have followed what has happened in Vietnam, it denies its citizens basic human rights. But here's the…

I think our personnel were wise enough to see that that was happening.