Ed Royce

I have introduced the Export Control Reform Act of 2018, as the Chairman mentioned, which would repeal the expired authorities and replace it with a modern structure.

I think U.S. technological leadership is going to be essential.

Now there is that opportunity. And I know the international community and NGOs and those concerned with leading on human rights have great hope at this point in time.

And this is the problem of a society in which you have a totalitarian aspect that takes hold.

I recall just about 20 years ago that I was in Harare and Bulawayo, and the emotional feeling of listening to Morgan Tsvangirai's supporters, and later him, speak about that issue of human rights.

I think the United States has never defaulted on a principal or interest payment and never should.

There is no other country in the world that has a separate vote over whether to pay bills that we have already agreed to incur.

I think it is important that Congress do that.

I think that when we talk about food as a weapon, we forget that regimes use it occasionally against their own population.

If the gentleman would yield, I want to make it clear, we passed legislation to direct what Mr. Joaquin has suggested here.

What we in the House have advocated here in the legislation that we passed that I authored, along with Mr. Engel, has been to call for a Cyber Diplomacy Act

Authoritarian regimes would love to globalize this censorship.

The open nature of the Internet is increasingly under assault by authoritarian regimes, regimes like China, that aggressively promote a vision of cyber sovereignty.

Cyberattacks and commercial espionage and ransomware used by foreign governments, used by terrorists, used by criminals, are a serious threat to our U.S. national security.

I think it is important to reestablish deterrence against Syrian Government use of chemical weapons.

I think it behooves this committee, I think it behooves the Congress.

It is a mistake to think Russia is going to push them out. The Russians won't.

I think it is time to think carefully about core American national interests in Syria, core American national interests.

Ideally, we would see a better government in Syria.

I share the concern of my colleagues that foreign-government-backed investments, that it is critical that we look at those investments in U.S. technologies that might pose a national security risk.

I plan to introduce legislation to direct the Office of Management and Budget to identify other areas of the Federal balance sheet where derisking could be used to protect taxpayers.

Earlier this Congress, I introduced legislation requiring that the GSEs increase credit risk transfers with the private sector.

I introduced this bill. It is a bipartisan measure, the Credit Score Competition Act.

I am a very strong believer that effective regulation of interstate commerce should be done on a very uniform basis.

I would like to close if the gentleman has no other speakers. I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1415