Ted Yoho

That stamp around the world stands for the highest quality product that you can get, and it is so important that we protect it.

I look forward to helping you achieve your goal of making a realignment of the USDA to make it the most efficient agency in government.

I am proud to cosponsor this bill, which will help get these slave traders behind bars and in penitentiaries where they belong.

The United States must use every tool at our disposal, including rewards, to take human traffickers off the streets.

Human traffickers are the scourge of our entire global culture today.

The Frederick Douglass Reauthorization Act will not only continue to require annual reports, but it will also require much more transparency over what amount of aid has been allowed to go to countries using child soldiers under the use of…

A third important provision of the Frederick Douglass Reauthorization Act is to specify a timeframe of 45 days after the State Department issues its list of what governments are involved in the use of child soldiers.

The new amended definition that the Frederick Douglass Reauthorization Act provides will ensure that these loopholes don't allow some governments to escape scrutiny in the future.

So the Frederick Douglass Reauthorization Act, one of the most significant things that it does in this respect is require that if the President issues a national security waiver, that he certify to the appropriate congressional committees…

My goal is that we have an enforcement mechanism that has teeth behind it because that is the only way I could justify what President Trump did.

I don't want America to have to do this alone but after 5 years of slaughter over there and pushing 500,000 people.

I was torn when President Trump ordered those Tomahawk missiles in there because I was a strong opponent of President Obama going in there.

They are going to do what is best for China.

Do we really want to go down here again?

I think CFIUS needs much, much stronger abilities to just simply deny Chinese technology acquisition, particularly ones that are backed by the Chinese Government.

If we look at the past activity of people of nations, we can predict future actions.

I look forward to gaining the information to where we can come up with policies that stick.

I think we need to rally this Nation. Through leadership is the only way that we are going to go back and do the things we used to do, of exploring space and going on to that next frontier.

$600 billion of intellectual property has been stolen--$600 billion.

I think we need to have that policy.

I think we are at a point in this country--and this is something we have talked about on this committee--to develop a rare earth national security policy for the United States.

China's control of the market, however, enabled them in 2010 to restrict rare earth exports by 40 percent and cut off supplies to Japan over territorial disputes.

I truly believe that was for national pride. It was a leap of faith and a giant step for mankind that the whole world benefited from.

There is no separation, from what I have studied--and I think you have alluded to this--between the Chinese Government, the Chinese military, and/or Chinese businesses.

China is an emerging threat to the United States and an emerging threat to people who want to live at peace in the world.