Ted Deutch

Ten years is simply too long for a family to go without their husband, father, and grandfather.

I hope that the administration is making every effort to prioritize engaging on Bob's case.

If you don't do it, which I think is a mistake, it is imperative that you press our allies to raise Bob's case in their communications with the Iranians or any international fora.

``There will never be an end.'' That is how Emily Addison described the love and the loss she feels for her partner and the mother of her son, Deonka Drayton. Deonka was one of 49 victims killed at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando 1 year ago…

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that has attempted to carry out, or has successfully carried out, attacks on multiple continents.

Hezbollah is the best design model Iran could have really hoped for in a number of ways.

I appreciate that. I look forward to this committee working together, as we regularly do, in a bipartisan manner under your leadership, Mr. Chairman, to move forward with these new efforts.

In 2012, a bipartisan group of members began sending letters to our EU partners, urging them to designate Hezbollah.

This morning, I supported the Protecting Against Child Exploitation Act to help stop the unspeakable cruelty of child pornography. The trade of child pornography on the internet is not just information streaming across wires, it is abuse…

Our condolences go out to the families of all who lost loved ones and of all the injured.

When 22 lives are taken by terrorists, and dozens more are injured...there is an opportunity to pause.

We will never bring back the lives of those kids who perished in Manchester, but we absolutely can help to honor their memory.

There is also an opportunity...to think about these young people whose lives were extinguished.

I urge the Turkish Government to respect freedom of expression, speech, and assembly for all people in Turkey.

There is strong bipartisan support in Congress for expanding our assistance to Africa and I know that we will put up a fight when the administration tries to cut U.S. support there in its 2018 budget.

U.S. engagement with Africa is smart and essential, and I look forward to working with the administration and my colleagues here in Congress to ensure that we get this right.

this administration has decided that Africa is not a strategic priority and that is what explains these various sorts of things

What worries me in the short term is the damage the President and his team have already done to our relationships with African leaders.

I would respectfully suggest that the President of the United States had no business meeting and welcoming President Erdogan to the White House.

There is no way that anyone in this country could suggest that the United States or any of our allies would be responsible for this horrific attack on his own people.

To suggest that Assad is some great protector of minorities, for the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee to have to try to justify taking action to try to address a dire situation caused by a brutal dictator.

This amendment will place a much-needed priority on advancing the technological capabilities of the U.S. Copyright Office. I support the underlying bill to make the selection of the Register of Copyrights more open and more transparent. I…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 1, line 18, insert after ``law'' the following: ``, shall be capable of identifying and supervising a…

I thank my friend, the ranking member from Michigan, for the time, and I appreciate the opportunity to join the majority of my committee colleagues as a cosponsor of this bill. It reflects the general consensus that Congress needs to step…

I thank my friend from Michigan. I appreciate the strong support from Chairman Goodlatte, and I urge all of my colleagues to support this good amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is…