Ted Yoho

When we ignore--when we allow children to be kidnapped because they are partaking in Western education, we are failing our own children here.

Boko Haram means, I think, 'Western education is a sin.'

How can you do that when over 70 percent of the population is below poverty? They don't have a voice.

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

This has been a 15-year process when Hugo Chavez stepped in. And it is time to act.

So I think this is, quite frankly, long overdue.

The important thing from my perspective, if we are going to keep the funding going, we need to make sure that we have tighter controls.

If we are giving this money in the name of peace and they are promoting terrorism--you know, if you steal a loaf of bread, you go to prison.

We put in a resolution that says all funding to the Palestinian Authority gets cut until they remove Resolution 21 and 23.

The people back home don't want us sending any money overseas, especially in this economic crisis that we are having here.

Hard-working American taxpayers' money.

Yet the reports I have read say that the Ukrainian Government was wrought with corruption.

If we are going to help out a country, I would like to get the money back, especially in these tough economic times.

I voted against it and he goes, 'I know you did, but we realize that is a gift to the Ukrainian people that we will never pay back.'

What is the atmosphere and environment of the pro-Russian people in Crimea?

I would urge, if you have any control, to work with us to make sure this beef doesn't come in until they have the safeguards in place.

I hope for a complete repeal of that, but if not, in times of uncontrolled climate and growing conditions...

What is being done as far as industry or business development in that area and are we focussing on that?

All I am saying is get rid of those resolutions and you can have the foreign assistance back.

If we are serious we need to be serious and say until you remove those resolutions from your--I am not telling you how to live--I am just saying take those resolutions off your book if you want our assistance.

I propose that all foreign aid is cut to the Palestinian Authority until they remove those two resolutions.

I would like to focus on trade, not aid

We do not continue to treat a symptom and not a causative agent or the underlying cause of the problems

We need to work with our partners in doing it because the United States can play an important role on this but it is not something that we can do alone.

I appreciate your participation in this and your leadership on so many other things that you have done. Thank you for being here. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________