Ted Yoho

We don't want to be forced to cut but I think sometimes we do need to shrink down some things.

Austerity cuts are coming to this country. We know that.

The subcommittee will come to order.

I won't stop calling out Iran to once and for all send Bob home.

Imagine 10 years without your husband, your father, your grandfather.

This is not rule of law. This is hostage taking.

Hostage taking is not a game that responsible nations play.

We have got reports in South America, and without a clear definition and a mission statement, this has morphed into a war.

I think for the sake of our young men and women in the military, for the commitment this country has made financially, this last National Defense Authorization Act is pushing $700 billion.

So that we don't get these open-ended conflicts that morph from what we went to the conflict in Afghanistan in 2001 to where we are now.

What I saw was an--and Ms. Lee brought it up--is it didn't get debated in committee.

We should never engage in regime change without contemplating just what might fill the vacuum.

I appreciate all your service. I, personally, have known five young men and women that have lost their lives in this conflict.

What happens when ISIS is gone? There is going to be an ISIS 2.0 or 3.0 the next generation.

What I have seen is an open-ended war.

I thank Ms. Lee and I thank your hard work for trying to bring the AUMF to an end.

What are some of the ways that the institutions are looking beyond Federal appropriations to modernize the facilities and equipment?

Thank you all for enduring a long hearing, and we appreciate you being here.

We cannot grow our nation's economy adequately if 50 million rural Americans are unable to participate.

We really do and, of course, we just saw that load of ivory tusks--I think it was 7,000 pounds--that just got confiscated and those are the kind of things that are funding terrorist organizations and it doesn't serve humanity.

If you cut foreign aid you are going to have to buy more bullets and that is certainly not the direction we want it.

We are $20 trillion in debt. I was at a meeting last night. They said our deficit spending next year is going to be around $750 billion.

The Paris climate--and, again, that would have put this country at a disadvantage. We are going to lead on energy.

A good healthy widespread multifaceted relationship between the United States and our Asian partners in Southeast Asia in particular is excellent for the counterterrorism partnerships.

I know this is getting broadcast and I am going to--people are going to say I am against First Amendment. I am not.