Ed Royce

I had an amendment, the Royce amendment, here last year, that would have prohibited food aid from going to North Korea under these circumstances.

It is the overall decision by the State Department to not live within the constraints put by the Congress.

What has created the radicalism is the fact that we have not stopped these particular people from indoctrinating kids.

the brainwashing and indoctrination of this type of ideology so early in life, when you are teaching people to commit jihad, and giving them that absolutist viewpoint, which now this particular Boko Haram wants to--you know, if education…

There was undoubtedly the case that there were people in Pakistan who knew where bin Laden was.

if China were bothered by North Korea's ICBMs, if it were bothered by North Korea's dual-track nuclear program, it would stop subsidizing them.

cut off the flow of illicit activities, look at what we did with Banco Delta Asia in terms of reinforcing that type of discipline, cut off the funding

One of the reasons California has the highest electrical rates is because of mandates like the one that the chairman alluded to.

California has the highest electricity rates in the United States, and we believe prosperity in California is dependent upon affordable energy.

I appreciate your testimony here. We will have an opportunity to ask about that.

If we were just to weigh the scales here, looking back in time, thinking about what we didn't anticipate in terms of that hazardous waste, and then looking at what we don't know today about the science.

Let me ask you a question, then. Does it do a cost/benefit analysis in order to weigh what that impact would be on the community?

In order to avoid going through the State park, which, as I understand it, was donated originally by this City to be a State park, it then required an additional 10 miles in order to navigate through the community.

It would just seem logical.

I am certain that at the point in time that the decision was made not to do the due diligence that would have been required, maybe because of cost, in order to prevent that contamination, probably at that point in time not as much was…

It is time to clean it up, and it would be time to apply some of the savings--

What we are talking about is not undergrounding for the length of the project.

The market is up, Mr. Chairman. But we still have fewer people in the labor force, fewer people out there working in jobs than we did 3 years ago.

indigenous innovation is just basically the concept for the Chinese Government extortion of U.S. technology, in the view of many.

It is important to have reasonable regulation in place, because the cost of the loss that we suffered in the fall of 2008 was monumental.

Now, at long last, you see U.S. businesses speaking out long and hard about this indigenous innovation issue.

It's clear that human rights and rule of law legislation should follow Jackson-Vanik repeal, in my opinion.

The Obama administration I think is wrong when it says nothing should replace Jackson-Vanik's repeal.

According to a recent study, when asked how to solve the North Korea's chronic food shortage problem, 94 percent of North Korean refugees said the government needed to be reformed. Only 1.4 percent said the answer was more food aid.

I had an amendment prohibiting food aid to North Korea that passed the House last year.