Ed Royce

I am proud to have co-authored this bill with Congressman McCaul and I thank him for his support for all of those who have been affected by the Iranian regime's egregious disregard for the human rights of its own people and of American…

This is an outrageous lie and Iran must be publicly called out for this lie.

This bill sanctions senior Iranian officials for taking American hostages and for its human rights abuses against the Iranian people.

I am also grateful to Representative Bass for her resolution condemning the disgusting slave auctions taking place in Libya.

This resolution condemns those horrific abuses.

Now, with this bill we are trying to speak directly to the Iranian people to tell them that we stand in solidarity with them against their oppressive regime.

It would be unconscionable to give money and resources, which would likely be siphoned off by corrupt officials, to the Assad regime.

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.

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

I am rising in strong support of the rule on the underlying bill. Included in this package of bills before us today is the National Securities Exchange Regulatory Parity Act. This is a bipartisan bill, and it is to ensure that future…

International law of armed conflict prohibits the use of innocent men, women and children to deter an attack. This cowardly and disgraceful strategy is known as using human shields. And it's rightly deemed a war crime. Yet since the…

Forty-five years ago, after the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, 556 American military personnel and twenty-five civilians boarded American C-141s and finally ended their long, extremely trying captivity in Vietnam. For most…

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We are here, really, to reaffirm a very important commitment that we have to one of our closest partners in the Middle East, and that is Jordan. I think all of us agree that, over the generations, it has been astounding the way Jordan has…