"It is imperative that our hard-earned taxpayer dollars from the hard-working Americans, are used appropriately, efficiently, and responsibly."
"If we agree on one thing, let it be this: That child marriages only contribute to the devastating cycle of poverty, keeping young girls and women from receiving the proper education, and harming them ..."
"I want to use--I put this amendment in to just clarify the fact that--and make, as part of this legislation, something that is there with the reauthorization of Kemp-Kasten that we do, and just make s..."
"I definitely ask for a recorded vote on this."
"As a member of both the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security, I appreciate the opportunity to jointly examine this very important topic."
"What are we doing to make sure this is being rooted out and we discover this and then through training or maybe other actions, withholding money and other actions, we could deal with that?"
"I have encouraged the President to talk more about buy America from the perspective of the Federal Government."
"One of the concerns, despite the despicable treatment Syria has shown to the demonstrators, has been the treatment and detainment of innocent journalists at the hands of the Assad regime."
"Should we be more risk-based? Should we be looking more at the real threat rather than the grandmother?"
"I've had numerous people say, 'Why aren't we doing what they do in Israel? That works so well.'"
"When there is a threat on board an aircraft, the FBI responds and investigates. When a pilot makes an error on the aircraft, the FAA responds and investigates. And when there is an airplane crash, the..."
"This is a tremendous weakness. ... If we're trying to create uniform standards of security, if we leave that to each local police ..."