I feel abandoned and I feel my husband has been abandoned.

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Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman again for the time. I rise today in strong support of H.R. 1992, the Israel Qualitative Military Edge Enhancement Act, authored by my colleague and the vice chair of our Subcommittee on the Middle East and…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, too often, current U.S. law addressing international child abduction actually facilitates domestic violence and child abuse by forcing the return of a child despite a recognized risk to the child or…

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If we can't conduct the kind of operations needed to reduce the poppy production, and if we don't have enough manpower now to fight this issue, what are we going to do next year and post-2014 to stop the illicit drug trade that generates…

I have been concerned that we are allowing the post-2014 residual force size also to be decided politically, and that is purely numbers-driven rather than focused on the task and what is needed.

As I had mentioned, we had met with President Karzai, as all delegations do when they go over there, and in our delegation we raised the concerns about his neighbor, the Iranian regime, the threat that that poses to our interests in the…

What headway do you see that we are making in that? What progress?

Thank you for your leadership throughout the years on any issue related to human rights and thank you for shedding some light on this terrible human rights abuse that is going on in Egypt.

Mr. Secretary, sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raul Castro, it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant.