I appreciate it. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Con. Res. 107. This resolution denounces the cowardly act of using civilians--women and children--as human shields by Hamas and any other terrorist organization, which is in…

I mean, these things just don't seem like common sense.

I get the same feedback from the producers in our area, that the Department of Labor treats our producers like they are guilty and needed to be proven innocent.

There has almost been like a rabid response--I have been around agriculture since I was 16 years of age, and we have seen just a ramp-up in the amount of investigations with this Administration.

The reason I bring that up is there is a case right now where we have a guy--they went after the contractor.

Because we hear all the time you can't fire a government employee. And certainly--I was on Foreign Affairs when Ms. Clinton said you can't fire anybody in the government.

I think we need to kind of refocus and do a paradigm shift on how we handle our foreign aid.

I think we are seeing maybe the true nature of what the people in charge actually believe. They don't believe in a democracy.

We cannot have it both ways. Either we are for democracy or we are not, and we need to have clarity about that in this body.

I would like to see us do more of that instead of trying to tell them how to run their country.

a democracy, as Ben Franklin pointed out, is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. The sheep always loses.

Our credibility is gone. They don't know what we stand for.