I thank Chairman Royce for the wonderfully bipartisan way in which he leads our committee, and I especially want to thank the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Meadows) for his incredible leadership on this important topic. Madam Speaker…

As the latest round of the P5+1 Iranian nuclear talks resume this week in Vienna, it is important for us to highlight just how weak and dangerous this deal is. From the moment that President Obama took office, he has sought the legacy of…

But they must not come at the expense of human rights and they must take into account the interest and the obligations we have with our free trade partners, especially in our own hemisphere.

The people of Vietnam are living under a brutal Communist regime, which is imprisoning thousands of political dissidents, prisoners of conscious, and ethnic and religious minorities.

However, as we negotiate trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, we must not lose sight of the values that we are trying to protect, like human rights as we achieve trade pacts with responsible nations.

Yes, we must counter China's expansion and increasing aggression whenever and wherever possible.

In Vietnam, there is no rule of law. There is no freedom of the press. There is no freedom of speech.

It is imperative that we not only defeat ISIL but we find a way to defeat its radical ideology as well.

We must acknowledge that ISIL doesn't just target religious minorities. Everyone who doesn't ascribe to its form of Islam is a target.

ISIL doesn't discriminate. You are either with the terrorists or they will destroy you or subjugate you.

Many of us in this committee have decried the fact that the Iranian regime's deplorable human rights record and its persecution of religious minorities were not made a part of the nuclear negotiations from day one.

Today I rise to recognize police officer Shirley Verde on being named the Village of Pinecrest Police Department's Officer of the First Quarter of 2015. Officer Verde has consistently shown her commitment to her community and her fellow…

I don't believe that throwing money at the problem without a comprehensive strategy will help to fix the crisis.

We cannot successfully strengthen these government institutions and root out corruption unless drug trafficking is curtailed and the security environment is improved.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 907 offered by the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida.

H.R. 907 is a simple, straightforward, common sense bill that not only helps secure U.S. national security interests, but also the security interests of one of our closest allies in the Middle East region, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

we must continue to fully support our allies in the region as much as we can, and this bill will signal to them that we stand ready to back them in their efforts to take on terror and to bring stability to a violence-plagued region.

Jordan has done a great job of taking the fight to ISIL, but the Kingdom needs more resources to bolster their capabilities.

Time is of the essence, Mr. Chairman, in the fight against ISIL, and we have none to spare.

Allowing access to Iran's nuclear sites declared or undeclared still ultimately resides with the regime.

What makes this whole nuclear negotiations debacle even more rotten is that President Obama has been disingenuous at best with Congress and with the American public about what is really in this deal.

From the very beginning, most of us in Congress decried these negotiations because they only focused on the nuclear aspect of Iran's illicit behavior.

It is important to not minimize Iran's role in Yemen or the sectarian nature of this conflict, as I believe the administration seems determined to do.

The administration is hoping for a political solution without also having our own comprehensive strategy in the region.

I am also very concerned about the plight of civilians in one of the poorest countries in the world.