Francis Rooney

Great challenges don't wait for or depend on the results of the next election.

We have some openings in the Congress to get real, bipartisan, science-based legislation passed. Let's seize them.

It's also confusing to me to have rough amateur diplomats out there conducting parallel diplomacy when we have professional diplomats doing their job in the Ukraine.

No, that's where the rub comes in. The rub comes in that we have professional diplomats trying to do their job to root out corruption, and then we have Giuliani parachuting in, talking about corruption but maybe representing his customers.

I was very disappointed to hear the comments of the Chief of Staff. We don't do this all the time, OK? We don't use the power and prestige of America to beat on people for political purposes.

I think our country is built on speaking your mind and having freedom of expression.

It's not a good thing. And you're on to something here that we should not be beating on a foreign country for political gain but should be for advancing United States strategic interests.

This isn't of an etch-a-sketch. You can't go and revise what you want in the cameras and say, oh, actually, I meant the opposite.

I really think mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions is the only answer there.

I do think that the course that these countries are on is not sustainable, socially or politically.

I think that is real leadership, and I think it caught the attention of the private sector.

I certainly agree that ensuring that we have political buy-in and political support is the most challenging thing.

He has now become the Somoza of Nicaragua, someone who he fought against.

Under the current circumstances, we have extra regional actors who are happy to fill the void...

The working group of Central American leaders... identified corruption as one of the core problems facing the region.

I want to add my voice and support to my colleague Ted Deutch's resolution, H. Res. 441 condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center.

We all want to see equal pay for equal work. But as Federal policymakers up here in Congress, our question is what is the best way to achieve that?

I think it is a bit of a double standard by the majority to deny a member the right to testify.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

I would like to ask for your help, all three of you, to the extent you can about a particularly egregious example of hostility to foreign direct investment in Guatemala.

Your life is a testimony and a witness to Christian values, religious values, religious freedom, and protecting human dignity.

Why should we support USAID when you are giving money to countries that won't accept our deportees?

I want to applaud you in your budget for scrapping the disaster known as the U.S. Institute of Peace.

I wish you would reconsider the $10 million you have in there for the U.N. Human Rights Council.