Ed Royce

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much. A couple of quick points here. One, the administration is actively considering resuming food aid to North Korea. And I understand the humanitarian impulse here, but the unusual circumstances of North…

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part of this bill would repeal the mission of the GSEs to serve the section 202 elderly market.

As former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan said, their failure, Fannie and Freddie, is because they paid whatever price was necessary to reach the goal.

I would urge the United States to go back to the Nuclear Suppliers Group now, arguing for a very stiff set of standards dealing both with the safety issue and with the proliferation issues.

One of our responsibilities is to help ensure that nuclear material is out of the hands of terrorists.

If we use the leverage we have now to get back to the agreements that will at least halt that spread, I don't think that the problem is as dire as my colleague would indicate.

It is very, very concerning to me and the delegation from South Carolina that Secretary Chu and his staff have decided to take $100 million away from H Canyon.

I think all of us feel and want to convey that our thoughts are with the Japanese people.

Right now, we have the leverage. We have the President's statement in Prague in 2009 that we were going to face this new paradigm in civil nuclear cooperation.

We can have a reasonably successful implementation of the goals you talk about if we can get the Nuclear Suppliers Group to agree on a set of principles.

The central problem is that it can be a sprint from a civilian to a military nuclear program.

As my friend Louie Gohmert says we don't need to pay people to hate us. They will do it on their own.

The facts I look at is how Transparency International sees it. They say that Senegal has fallen from No. 71 in '07 to 105 out of 178 countries.

I would argue that at some point in time you have to send a message and you have got to send a message to other countries that you are serious.

We must not give food aid to North Korea. Doing so is the same as providing funding for North Korea's nuclear program.

What about Six-Party Talks? I say let them go to the elephant graveyard.

Diplomacy has been and can be again with North Korea a powerful tool for advancing and protecting our national interests.

I think the administration is on the wrong course in this request for food aid to North Korea.

The goal of engagement is not to help the North Koreans. It is to advance our own national security interests.

The capitalists will be happy to sell the rope.