Ed Royce

I was one of the original authors of this measure, along with Jim McDermott and Charlie Rangel, and I know how much work over the last week has gone into this in terms of the work by Chairman Dave Camp, by Karen Bass, and by others who…

I want to start here by commending Chairman Ros-Lehtinen for this sustained focus on Iran that she has had for many, many years. I also want to thank Ranking Member Berman for the strong pressure that he has put on the regime in Iran, as…

That was clever, and it was quick.

I think Mr. Coffee has had some insights, some key insights, and I think over the years, some of these insights have been included in legislation.

July 20 marks the 38th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of the island of Cyprus. That invasion claimed the lives of about 5,000 Cypriots. In the neighborhood of 200,000 people were forcibly expelled from their homes during that time…

The worst possible outcome is that Assad uses these against his people, but perhaps just as dangerous he sells them to Hezbollah or Iran.

I think there are several possible scenarios here, but one is that Assad loses control over his chemical weapons.

this regime has a plan for ethnic cleansing.

It is so critical that we are able to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons now.

The Chinese Government estimated its public procurement market at, I think, $110 billion in 2009, but we have figures from our Department of Commerce report, Doing Business in China, that puts that actual figure in excess of $200 billion.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I join with those that are concerned. I urge my colleagues to repeal this health care law so that we can replace it with a plan that is fiscally responsible, that gives Americans the freedom to make…

The problem we have with Dodd-Frank is that it did not solve too-big-to-fail; it compounded it.

I think to get back to the solution at hand, I would like to have you sort of just revisit this.

We need layers of protection--capital is one part of it, but multiple other layers are absolutely essential to protect the American taxpayer, our financial system and our economy from this ever happening to them again.

I think that this is one of the reasons why some of us have a problem with a strategy that ended with now several years after the crisis we now have 5 of the largest banks holding 52 percent of all U.S. banking industry assets.

Yes, if I could point out, one can support financial reform without supporting Dodd-Frank.

It did not increase investment in entrepreneurship or foster robust growth in the economy.

If we are going to assume that you have special powers-- shouldn't we at least assume that you would be able to get to the bottom of a leverage ratio and enforce it?

We estimate that the Royce-McCarthy legislation would inject $13 billion into new capital and to small businesses in the first year after enactment and create 140,000 new jobs, all at no cost to taxpayers.

I think relations between our two countries stand to become even stronger as the benefits of KORUS... are realized.

Because, since the '94 framework agreement, and we were here for the '94 framework agreement, the same strategy has been deployed.

One of the things that is changing in North Korea are the attitudes of people as a result of watching the DVDs...

What factors helped South Korea win the UAE deal, if I could ask?

I worry that Japan does not have the political will to make difficult reforms in its automotive, financial services, and agriculture sectors.

Don't allow a line to be drawn down the middle of the Pacific.