Ted Yoho

What we see here is a common element. We talk about the 16 percent, the budget on fire suppression, was 20 years ago and it is 60 percent now.

How do we prevent programs like that?

What I would like for you to do is just kind of look at ways we can become more efficient...

I appreciate the help you have given us, because we have sat in our office and gone over trying to get rural broadband out to an area that talked about wanting it more than they wanted to put the effort behind.

In this time of budgetary constraints, do the grants really do the most good, in your opinions?

Administer McBride, at the Ag Appropriations hearing on Tuesday, you said the demand for the Broadband Loan Program was double the program level.

What about if they donate it to a food pantry, like ground beef, or something like that? That would violate that and they are not supposed to do that?

What if they were to sell that meat, or donate it to a food bank? Does that violate that, and are they held accountable for that?

I do feel our food in this country is the safest anywhere in the world.

We wanted to make that work requirement to reinstitute it after it was waived in 2009 and 2011, with all 50 states.

We have a pilot program right now for ten states. We know, really, the results of able bodied work requirements.

I see a nanny state growing as Mr. Scott brought up. People know how to feed themselves for the most part.

Do you want to represent that to the people of your State, my State?

No, I think it was something that was negotiated for national security with our President back then that put national security first...

It is imperative that the United States Congress asserts its authority as defined in the Constitution over any transference of property from Guantanamo.

I have been working on preventing a unilateral action by this President to transfer Guantanamo Naval Base to the Castro regime for some time now.

We are just trying to clarify it so that there is no confusion not just with this administration but future administrations.

I find it particularly vexing that American service members spent and pledged their lives and often gave their lives in the fight against exactly that.

These folks in power have no interest at all in changing their ways and they are going to use us and our foolishness, our generosity to further their intentions.

I find that particularly irritating and self-destructive as a person who served decades now in the United States military.

I'm proud to be a co-sponsor of H. Con. Res. 75. I support its passage, and Mr. Chairman, justice demands ISIS be held accountable.

The world, including the United States, needs to be clear about what ISIS is doing.

It is such a strategic place in the Caribbean and a national security interest.

Today I would like to speak to you about a transfer of property and detainees from Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.

I introduced H.R. 4126, the Guantanamo Transfer Prevention Act, which among other things would prevent the President from unilaterally ceding the base back to the Cuban government without the advice and consent of Congress.