Ted Yoho

I am glad to see you have stepped that up.

The common sense of the sound science that leads to the approval of the GMOs should not be overshadowed by the environmental McCarthyism of the anti-GMO crowd.

Let me ask you all this. Would a GMO that had any deleterious effects to humans, animal, plants, or the environment ever get approved by the USDA, FDA, or EPA?

What you have done is adequate because it is years of research, years of studies, years of feed studies, and then the tissue samples and all those things that come with that, and it costs millions if not billions of dollars, and it finally…

I think we should come clean with the American people, say they going to have a nuclear weapon.

Would they be investing money into that or would they be investing it into their own country?

Is it prudent for the United States of America to go forward with this versus backing up from the negotiation table?

I think it is great that we are negotiating to prevent them from getting nuclear arms but I think we are all in agreement they are going to get nuclear arms.

One lesson is clear. Civilian nuclear programs flourish only through cooperation and openness. Secrecy and isolation are typically signs of a nuclear weapons program.

I think this is something we need to really pay attention to and I think it is a misstep by our State Department and this administration to negotiate with Iran and open up that negotiation without giving anything.

I just think this is the wrong way and that we need to heed the warning.

It is disturbing to me that the U.S. national intel report that came out has removed Iran and Hezbollah off the terrorist threat list.

Has that goal changed, in your opinions?

I feel like they have been growing and it just wasn't a correct conclusion.

We need to stand strong, because you are talking about, not just the trade imbalance, but you are also talking national security and what is best for America.

As we move forward, we are all for balance and fair trade, and being who I am, a Republican and a capitalist and all that, we just hope our deal is a little bit better for us.

But I don't see the end results, and with all the money we have spent over the course of the last, you know, again 1 percent, $37.8 billion over 10 years--that is $370 billion of American taxpayers' money--but yet has the world gotten…

Why is that not the responsibility of that government and if we are giving them money, a cookie, and it's a good cookie and they want our cookie, why are we not willing to take that back if they are not following the procedure if we have…

If there is transparency and accountability where did our $300 million go that we don't know about and who is responsible for that?

How do you increase that want? Just if you have an idea how we can do that to make our money more effective--our aid more effective.

As I get Ambassadors that come in from countries all around the world, they say when they look at America they don't want us around.

I want to look around this body. What are we asking to do? We are asking to fund DHS 100 percent. We are asking to put safeguards in there so that we don't move with an executive order that has been deemed illegal by a Federal judge. That…

The regime hopes that we will move on, we will forget the people of Iran as the administration in the U.S. continues to negotiate solely on the nuclear program.

But what we have seen, Mr. Chairman, is just the opposite. Human rights under Rouhani have actually gotten worse.

It is truly shameful to hear our own State Department talk about the importance of global human rights, talk about it when it does absolutely nothing and in fact is indirectly legitimizing the continued repression of the people of Iran.