I thank the gentleman from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of my constituents in Florida's Third District to voice the concerns they have shared with me over the President's sequester that will go into effect on Friday. Make…

I think that we have historically viewed the Muslim Brotherhood as a very dangerous organization with values and principles and platforms utterly inimical to our American values and democracy.

Anybody with eyes to see can understand that many of the gravest threats facing our nation today from a national security and a terrorism, anti-terrorism perspective are coming from societies where religious freedom is constrained.

Hearings like this give us the opportunity to have some accountability and transparency to how our tax dollars are being spent, and to examine if our efforts in Central Asia are worthwhile pursuits, which I believe they are.

I think it is also sadly a reality that Morsi is probably now relatively speaking moderate as against some of the really extreme Salafis who are part of his coalition.

It is a very dangerous and short-sighted game to ignore the long term strength that comes to a society when we base our policies on standing firmly and strongly for our most profound values.

Egypt must recognize that its greatest threat is not Israel, but rather the scourge of extremism and violence.

I feel personally that is why we are seeing such an upheaval of that in the Middle East.

Are they stable enough to receive that in lieu of the fact that we have got these tanks and the airplanes going over there?

In these tough economic times, it is absolutely necessary for us to scrutinize every dollar that the American people spend.

I think it wouldn't be bad to bring the Saudi Ambassador here and ask him a lot of questions.