I am so honored to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter), a member of the Armed Services Committee and a distinguished combat veteran who has served our country honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan with the United…

I would like to thank Mr. Berman for giving us 8 minutes of his time, and I reserve the balance of my time.

With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Chabot), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.

I yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. Mr. McKEON. The Taliban and al Qaeda are also listening. And, finally, the Afghan people are listening. Mr. Speaker, I want to send a clear message to the Afghan people and government, our…

I reserve the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Who seeks recognition? Seeing none, we will proceed with the closing statements in the reverse order of the opening statements. First, the gentleman from North Carolina.

How much would I have, then, to close? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining.

If I could ask my good friend the gentleman from California if he would yield 2 minutes of his time to me.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am pleased and honored to yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. McCotter), a member of the Financial Services Committee, a former member of our Foreign Affairs Committee. I would like to…

I believe the opportunity for close and bipartisan work exists, and I look forward to working with the chairman and the other members of the committee to move ahead on this issue.

I commend MCC's commitment to working with the current Government of Honduras to advance its efforts in support of accountable governance.

Our State Department is continuing to impose pressure tactics and unjust visa policies against those who defended the sanity of the Honduran constitution.

Reform first. Pay later.

I think it has improved and we still have to keep the pressure on them to make them improve more.

I think that it is going to play a key role in the Middle East, where we can set up, as you mentioned, we can set up U.N. offices to do democracy building, rather than the U.S. going in.

So I think that in Haiti and in other places, where we would possibly have had troops, the U.N. is covering that for us.

This administration's prior decision to cut support from pro-democracy civil groups in Egypt and to only fund groups pre-cleared with the Mubarak government is a mistake we must never repeat.

The U.S. should never have been supporting a government with Hezbollah. Now, with Hezbollah in control, what is the justification for continued U.S. taxpayer investment?

We have failed to effectively use our resources to help build strong, accountable institutions that protect basic human rights.

We should not associate the protests in Jordan and Bahrain with events transpiring in Tripoli, Cairo, and Beirut.

Madam Speaker, we must maintain firm ties with our allies, and enemies must be clearly identified. I hope that this administration can tell who's who.

A few days ago, I lost an irreplaceable part of my family. My mother, Amanda Ros, passed away from complications due to Alzheimer's. She was a warm, loving, and caring woman who led an extraordinary life. She was my father's rock…

The American people have spoken. They overwhelmingly voted for today's YouCut proposal calling for U.S. taxpayer funds overpaid to the United Nations to be returned to the United States. The United Nations holds about $179 million overpaid…

I wish to rebut some of the arguments. To my colleagues, I ask, if this was so urgent, why didn't the Obama administration request these funds legitimately last year? Why didn't the last Congress fund it? Secondly, the CBO needs to have…

Thank you so much for your excellent testimony.

And I would especially appreciate your responses and the Department of State's responses to the U.N. overpayment issue and the refund.