Ted Yoho

The transparency aspect is the first aspect of this legislation, transparent about foreign assistance, and make it easy for everyone to understand...

Foreign assistance has been around 50 years-plus. And what this legislation does is make that assistance transparent...

If we are going to attack them, if we are going to do this, let's do it right and let's get a strategy.

How costly is it to have 4 million displaced refugees that have gone around the world?

It has got to be laughable other than it is reality and it is just bad form.

We are attacking a sovereign nation without an AUMF.

I am amazed at the level of what appears to me--I have only been here for 3 years in Congress--but it appears to be a high level of incompetence, lack of strategy, lack of planning.

Why should I support anything this administration does in the Middle East, Syria, the Middle East, or even in the Ukraine, with the lack of strategy that I see?

If we are going to attack this, we need to attack it.

Our resolution to defund the $500 million until Palestine got rid of Resolution 21 and 23, we did that.

My goal is to remove all funding from the Palestinian Authority.

I think your idea, which I do agree with, of closing the PLO office, I think that is another step that we should go into.

I remember Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, if I remember correctly, saying that Hamas was a humanitarian organization.

So I think we should focus not only on what terrorist and proliferation activities North Korea has engaged in but what they are likely to do in the future.

Now, I am not saying their thirteenth weapon goes on eBay, but they have already sold for hundreds of millions of dollars nuclear technology to Syria and/or Syria and Iran.

We have one country that desperately wants nuclear weapons and is about to get its hands on, let us say, $100-billion-plus of money.

I don't think we should give it to them unless we get something in return, but to dismiss it out of hand seems absurd.

A decade ago, North Korea wanted a nonaggression pact with the United States. We turned them down because we don't do nonaggression pacts, which is perhaps the silliest reason not to do it.

The only way to approach that is at the WTO where you do look at domestic supports and export subsidies, as well as import access.

I am glad to hear you say that.

And there is so much misconception about what the sugar subsidy is.

I have talked to my producers, whether it is in some type of crop or dairy, they have said, man, we would love to get the Federal Government out of this as much as we can.

Everything we do from this point from the Federal Government should be making America stronger, not just militarily but economically.

The American Sugar Alliance has endorsed a Congressional resolution introduced by a Member of this Committee, Representative Ted S. Yoho of Florida.

We strongly support Congressman Yoho's zero-for-zero resolution.