Ted Lieu

We are simply making progress.

We live in reality and we understand, the military does, that climate change is real and it is harming national security.

I urge them to let it go.

I have introduced legislation, The Climate Solutions Act, that basically takes California's laws and makes it national.

What we actually would want is more oversight, not less, if these weapons are ending up in our enemy's hands.

I do hope that either this subcommittee or their House Foreign Affairs Committee will mark up the legislation that Congresswoman Torres presented on today.

I would simply note that the head of the Commerce Department, Wilbur Ross--do any of you know if he has any military experience? He does not have any.

I opposed the Obama Administration's unauthorized war in Syria. I oppose the Trump Administration's unauthorized war in Syria.

So you would not oppose that if there was this rule change that Congress would still be notified of sales over $1 million?

This is not a partisan issue. This is about saving lives.

The forward basing is very much in service of U.S. interests in addition to benefiting NATO.

It is really mutually beneficial to both the U.S. and these other countries.

I hope the President reads his own national security strategy.

But I want to talk about a real emergency right now which is the destabilization of NATO by Donald J. Trump and his enablers.

Presidents Obama and Bush never talked about withdrawing from NATO.

I passed a law that allowed victims of domestic violence to break their leases with their landlords.

we are going to keep highlighting it. We are going to keep exposing your war crimes and the famine that you are causing in Yemen.

How many of you think that is a good idea? OK. No one does.

it does appear to me that they are intentionally hitting civilians. ... my view is they are deliberately targeting civilians. I think these are war crimes.

I think a military intervention would be catastrophic, Mr. Chairman.

We will send that article to your agency and would like a written response.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, border apprehensions declined 75 percent from 2000 to 2018.

Why did it take 2 months to do that?

The next step should be supporting the path that Guaido himself has announced to restore the country's democracy.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in fiscal year 2018, 90 percent of heroin came through legal ports of entry.