I want to begin by congratulating you on your new position as chairman.

I would also like to congratulate the new subcommittee chairs.

The President's new approach was met with great skepticism by many of us in Congress.

We would not be where we are today in South Sudan without hard-nosed American diplomacy, the active involvement of the United Nations, and targeted U.S. foreign assistance programs.

It is clear that the vote will almost certainly result in independence for the South.

I really do look forward to working with all of you in the 112th Congress.

Before his tragic death in a helicopter crash in July 2005, Garang negotiated the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with Khartoum.

What I would love to do here on the House floor, because I think in a way it might best illustrate what I could say about his talents, was just to speak to the details of six or seven interventions and times that I dealt with him on a…

I would close by quoting from Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in an interview he gave just yesterday--actually, it was tonight in that time zone--where he said, ``We want a state of Palestine, not a unilateral declaration of statehood.'' He…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the International Protecting Girls By Preventing Child Marriage Act. Recently, Nelson Mandela asked a group of the world's most thoughtful and experienced political and moral leaders to identify the…

And I do it simply in the context of urging my colleagues to vote for this legislation; to point out, number 1, that this is not an entitlement program. This is an authorization. It is not an appropriation. To the extent, after we pass…

This resolution has nothing about settlements. There is nothing about incitement. There is nothing about the Palestinian denial of the Jewish connection to the Western Wall. As for the settlements, I have my own reservations about Israel's…