Brian Mast

We have decades of evidence to show that that strategy has failed.

What I think needs to happen at BIS is a complete culture shift on the licensing side.

I think that is an important term, 'fundamentally.'

If your bathtub is overflowing, what is the first thing that you do if your bathtub is overflowing? You shut off the water.

There is nothing about it to be proud of. It is like Central Park: anybody can walk in there, it is crime-ridden, and everybody around it has to pay the price for that.

I would absolutely personally, speaking for myself, want to shut off the entire system of asylum right now until we have dealt with the program as a whole and in an appropriate manner.

I like to think that we swing the biggest stick. And so, we can get them in line--with the right leadership.

Unless VA can, through your procedures for evaluating cost, give us as Members of Congress who would appropriate money to the VA for general funds or specific programs, sometimes we get a little nervous that we are throwing--we are not…

I want to be there to--I do not need a ride; I need ammunition.

It is not too little, too late, but it was too late for some.

We need to be steady; we need to be strong, and we need to be strategic in the way we impose our sanctions.

You want to be in a fight, you got to be present for it.

Darren Soto, who has been doing this almost as long as I have, is inside of the VA on a weekly basis seeing what goes right, seeing what goes wrong.

I do not want them to outdo us in anything, and I mean that very literally.

To any of our fellow Vietnam veterans, March 29, several years ago, was designated Vietnam Veterans Day.

In closing, I encourage us to look at the world in this way: Everything with China and everything with communists is competition. It is competition against America. It is competition against our democratic values, our way of life, the way…

What idiot decided to pull out the main fighting force before pulling out the diplomats, which resulted in 3,000 to 8,000 additional troops being sent back into Afghanistan?

the very first person to be here for the very first Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia Subcommittee is here, Congressman Brian Mast.

I rise in opposition to the ranking member's amendment.

Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. I think at this point we have all heard about Kevin McCarthy at length. He is my friend, my colleague. I am very proud to say that. I know our remarks are directed…

What is our job here? We are going to take an oath in a couple of weeks here really outlining our job: supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic. I took that oath as…

If we do oversight and we come up with, damn, something really wrong is going on right here, then it's responsible for us to respond to that accurately to the American people.

I do not trust the Administration. That's behind this.

This cannot be the direction of Congress. That argument is shoot first, ask questions later.

I cannot think of any reason personally why we, as Congress... would not want that oversight right now.