Ed Royce

One of the things I remember is talking to a defector from North Korea who had worked in the missile program.

The claim that this new health care law will somehow cut our budget deficit is proof that logic does not always prevail here in Washington, DC. This is a $2 trillion additional entitlement; and just like past entitlement programs, this one…

My hope would be that there are many other countries in Asia that have an interest in closer relations with the United States.

This is extortion, and we all know numerous examples.

have you made it very clear to Khartoum that any support for the LRA would prevent them from being taken off the terrorism list and, basically, that for you, this is a red line?

But then we have the historical record, and we have the fact that, for 10 years, between 1994 and 2005, Sudan is the only documented supporter for the LRA.

Yeah, it is the most horrific group, probably, on the planet.

Mr. Speaker, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has one job, and that is to monitor religious freedom around the world. The conclusion they have come to is that the situation is so egregious in Vietnam today that that…

As author of this resolution, I rise in support of House Resolution 20, calling on the State Department to list the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as a Country of Particular Concern with respect to religious freedom. I would like to share…

I rise to oppose this rule, Mr. Speaker. What happened to openness and transparency? We are operating here under same day consideration with no opportunity for a motion to recommit. We are in the 11th hour of this Congress, and even if we…

Yesterday a small community banker in Ohio by the name of Sarah Wallace wrote a letter. She wrote about what she believed will be the end of community banking as we know it. And Sarah Wallace notes, in her words: ``Going forward, we will…

This program, Radio Free Asia, was due to expire, under existing law, in September. And I am delighted here, for several reasons, that the legislation is before us. One is because, on a strategic level, if you have this sunset and you have…

I rise in opposition to this rule and to the underlying legislation. I rise because reform is desperately needed, but the reforms needed most are not in this bill. For example, this legislation fails to reform the government-sponsored…

Now, what we do with this legislation is we make the largest institutions too big to fail, and we do so by putting in a provision that is going to allow them to borrow at a lower cost than their smaller competitors, who I guess we would…

I don't know why it should be a surprise to the Left that this financial system collapsed. The reason I say that is because in 1992, the GSE Act passed this Congress, under a Democratic majority passed this Congress. And the GSE Act…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. And in response to the previous speaker, I will remind my colleagues that sanctions did work in South Africa, and that South Africa gave up its atomic weapons program. The threat, my friends, in Iran is…

Yes, let's look at those facts, because it is not 1rac{1}{2} ext{ years}, it is 3rac{1}{2} ext{ years; 3rac{1}{2} ext{ years since Nancy Pelosi became the Speaker of this House. In case the American public has forgotten it, every single…

I concur, and with Adlai Stevenson, we took that tack with our Ambassador to the United Nations during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was able to show the hard evidence. South Korea can take these same steps, show that hard…

The world's problems can seem overwhelming at times. It is fashionable to blame conflict in Africa on poverty and other environmental factors. But sometimes just getting rid of one person does make a big difference. History is full of…

As we watch the Senate move on legislation yet again toward a cloture vote on Senator Dodd's legislation, I think it is worth noting some of the concerns that many of us have and that many economists have with the Dodd-Frank approach on…

I would ask my colleagues to think about those neighbors of Iran that would create a heavily nuclearized Middle East should Iran succeed in this and what the impact would be. We can only imagine the turmoil and the tensions that will come…

I strongly support this motion to instruct. I think it is important for all of us to realize that right now Iran is at its weakest point in terms of its capacity to manufacture enough refined petroleum. It has to, at this point for its…

I want to take a moment and recognize someone who did a lot in California to help change many of the laws in our State, and that is Colleen Thompson Campbell, who lost not only her son to violent crime, but also, in a separate case, lost…

I will also mention the legislation that I authored in California to put fines on those who are convicted of crimes and fund programs in the State for victims, and we have done this at the Federal level as well. We need to do more to right…

When we picked up the headlines of The Washington Post today, it says, ``Pelosi may try to pass health bill without vote.'' And through nothing more than budgetary gimmicks, like counting half a trillion dollars reserved for Medicare…