Ted Lieu

The stronger the democratic institutions, rule of law, and tolerance in these countries, the more effective they will be at preventing terrorism.

The U.S. military can help prevent terrorist acts when used carefully in conjunction with other tools.

Education and cultural exchanges are crucial here. We should be inviting young leaders from around the world to learn in the United States.

People around the world look to the United States for leadership and to uphold the universal values.

Gutting the budgets and State and USAID, as has been proposed by the Trump administration, will unilaterally disarm U.S. counterterrorism policy.

This legislation recognizes the incredible economic partnership and relationship between the United States and Israel.

I am glad to see that Congresswoman Kay Granger of Texas has also cosponsored the bill.

We must push back against every effort from this President and his allies to legitimize Russian behavior.

Assad is a murderous thug, though----

I am one of four computer science majors in Congress. I read the classified report. I have had classified briefings, and the President of the United States is simply lying when he says another country could have done it. It was Russia.

Is that true that we are selling them $12 billion worth of fighter jets?

And I don't mean to be facetious with this, but does the President know that?

How do you square that sale, what the President has been saying about Qatar, since you said arm sales are an element of foreign policy?

I find it highly disturbing that just yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported our President still questions the intelligence community's assessment that Russia engaged in massive cyber attacks on the United States last year.

But thank goodness we have Congress. Thank goodness the U.S. Senate today overwhelmingly passed increased sanctions on Russia. I urge the House of Representatives to do the same.

I don't have a problem with helping our ally Saudi Arabia, but many Members of Congress... do have a significant problem when the Saudi-led military coalition is committing war crimes in Yemen.

All right. So my time is up. So I just want to make sure that you are really saying this.

Right. And they weren't trying to hit a tank. They were trying to hit that funeral, and they did.

That is wrong. In the funeral case, the Saudi Arabian military acknowledged they hit that funeral.

When it is 70-some air strikes documented by multiple organizations, then it is a pattern of either gross incompetence or direct targeting of civilians.

what many Members of Congress do object to on a bipartisan and bicameral basis is that the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition has committed multiple war crimes in Yemen, and the U.S. is aiding and abetting in those war crimes.

What is the bipartisan investigation you are talking about?

They pretty much demolished it.

we are now enabling the Saudi Arabia coalition to precisely kill civilians.

The reason that the Obama administration stopped the sale of precision-guided munitions was because the Saudi-led military coalition was using these munitions to target civilians.