I remember a few years ago visiting Israel, standing in the Golan Heights and looking to the border of Syria. At this time, our guide began talking about the peaceful protests in Syria, the beginning of an era of discontent. As I looked…

It is great working with you on all this, and you have been a leader not just in this Congress, but Congresses prior.

I hope the Commission doesn't become like Congress, because I think the intention of the Commission was not to be overtly partisan.

Today I would like to address Russia and its aggression in Ukraine. Ukraine is ultimately a story of a ruler whose goal is to stifle opposition and turn away from a failing economy, corruption, and authoritarianism in his own country by…

Nuclear power plants throughout the country provide safe, zero carbon emission.

My only concern is this has been in progress for a little more than 3 years already. Why is it taking so long for the Department to reform its nuclear export procedures?

Will you commit today that you will ensure that the Department is addressing fully the GAO report recommendations?

I don't see any down side in a no-fly or even an exclusionary zone above the FSA.

Our failure to enforce the red line has been one of the most devastating foreign policy decisions.

25 MRAPs is really a joke.

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen) for yielding the time. Thanks to the committee and the leadership for bringing this very important issue forward. =========================== NOTE =========================== December…

I agree with you, I mean, I think toppling him by force is not the best answer. The best is a peaceful transition to maintain the state.

Two hundred thousand dead Syrians today, at least many of which are women and children by the evil dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, who by the way is no protector of Christianity.

I hope that we begin to hear from this administration a strategy for Syria.

Iran is not our friend. Probably a significant number of American casualties that occurred in the war I was in Iraq occurred directly or indirectly from Iran.

The United States can only be defeated in a case like this by our will.

I think we have to never put on the table what we are not willing to do.

He is a murderer and he is a brutal dictator, and he needs deposed, and hopefully peacefully, but he needs to be gone.

I knew that if we didn't leave a residual force, this was going to fall apart.

This is not a problem that is going to go away by us exercising restraint.

Bashar al-Assad, if I hear it again I am going to pull my hair out, is no friend of the United States, no friend to Christianity, no friend to the West.

As Mr. Wilson alluded to as well, there are American soldiers that are not alive today because of the actions of Iran.

I think if there is an attempt by the administration to come to this body and even--or not come to the body but say, we need additional time, I mean, I hope and I think there would be bipartisan support to not give that

The message to Iran is simple--just stop or pay a price.

Today, I join many of my colleagues from both sides of the aisle in support of giving the President the initial authority needed to confront ISIS and Syria. I am actually surprised and disheartened by the opposition that some here in this…