And I certainly want to associate myself with Representative Connolly's remarks earlier regarding the manner in which you have honored us with your presence here today and honored Congress for the important lessons of history that must…

Even more troubling, our national debt is dangerously high at over $14.9 trillion, threatening our nation's ability to recover.

Why can't China, a nation with the world's second largest economy and the fastest growing economy after our own, use its own funds?

This is just absolutely misguided thinking.

I would refer to them... as really the butchers of Beijing.

It seems that perhaps with this administration, it has been more important to worry about our debt obligations to the butchers of Beijing than speak out against continued widespread human rights abuses.

I would encourage the Members to read this report because what it encourages us to do is that for the economic and political transition of Cuba what we argued here was that we needed not a weak Cuba where a power vacuum would be left but a…

The fact that any report that would argue to make the Castro dictatorship stronger is flawed on its face.

My understanding has always been that it is the policy of this Nation not to negotiate with terrorists.

this report is outrageous, that we would be negotiating with a terrorist regime to release an American hostage

we know that they have murdered Americans over international airspace, so they certainly have earned their label as a terrorist state.