Brian Mast

I dedicate my time today to a man whom I am honored to represent in Congress. His name is Mr. Thomas Corey, a decorated Vietnam hero who proudly served our country as a combat infantryman. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, he received an…

The Taylor Force Act seeks to rectify this injustice.

My bill, H.R. 2712, the Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act, targets these groups.

This committee continuously shows its commitment to human rights, justice, stability, and may I mention bipartisanship.

Hamas preaches destruction to Israel, death to the values that we as citizens of the United States hold dear.

These payments to terrorists make peace impossible. They are an affront to American values.

We hope that last month's reconciliation with Fatah is the first step toward disarming this terrorist group.

We need to be calling on every person in this town, every person in this building to lead and establish our embassy in the center of freedom in the Middle East.

I think it's absolutely a slight to our greatest of allies every single day.

I would personally call it proliferation.

No system is going to be perfect.

Certainly. And I have worked with law enforcement in Afghanistan, and not always a group that, you know, in some cases it was successful work, and in many cases it was not a group that I wanted to necessarily turn my back on.

This legislation does stir a great number of emotions in me. I do know what it is to protect life, take life, and to see life lost, and our role should always be to protect the innocent. But I also know that our role as a society has been…

There is no excuse for a nation that's sought actively to put itself at the forefront of global justice and security for generations to stand idly by while one group of individuals is targeted, whether they be Yazidis, or Christians, or…

I want to thank my colleague from Florida for the time. Without action from Congress, the authority for the VA Secretary to carry out many essential activities that are critical to helping our veterans will expire. I get my healthcare from…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 268, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $500,000)''. Page 270, line 22, after…

I want to thank you for taking the time to come here and sit with us today.

So you have each mentioned what you thought to the end was, and we are talking about terrorism, support of terror.

My time has expired.

I think there is a risk in looking at every threat through the lens of an AUMF and deciding that we want to use military force against that threat.

What about those who conduct acts of genocide--Bashar al Assad, somebody else?

Should we have access to operation's orders?

Thank you for sharing your story.

Should that be a consideration? Should we be looking at whether it could lead to only conventional weapons or nuclear weapons or expected casualties--KIA?

What benefit would it be to have authorization to begin these feasibility studies sooner rather than later?