there has been a civil war going on over there for over 8 years. Eight hundred thousand people have died.

So our foreign policy in this region is changing.

This bill is a simple, commonsense bill that allows the VA to focus on claims without having to act as the middleman.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues, Mr. Smith and Mr. Sherman, whom I have the pleasure of serving with on the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, for raising this important topic. I rise today to bring…

If Congress, meaning the House and the Senate, fails to fund the BUILD Act or the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, as intended by Congress, and the administrators cannot prepare--allowing the administrators not to…

Not until recently have we seen this aggression from China, and it is disturbing to see how aggressively they are.

You can only do what we do as far as creating tools and use those tools, but I hope the message gets out clear.

There should be a world standard that says from this point forward this is what we are going to do and all these countries that have, you know, chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons agree this is where we are going to draw…

Nothing drives this point home more than the recent decision to designate the Iran Central Bank because it supports terrorism.

Yes, it is important militarily and strategically, but it is important for the people of those areas.

There is only one aggressor, and that aggressor, of course, as we have heard, is China.