Bill Keating

I want to thank Chairman Duncan of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee for his leadership on these measures.

I want to thank Chairman Emeritus Ros-Lehtinen for authoring H.R. 1918.

I want to thank Mr. DeSantis for his leadership on House Resolution 259, which echoes strong words and actions from the administration including yesterday's sanctions.

To me, going it alone is perilous in today's world.

I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for having this important hearing and taking a leadership role on really an important issue that Congress has gone silent on for many years now.

Our long-term success it is essential because we can win militarily but holding that area, too.

It is important that we do not penalize our foreign partners for their efforts, promote peace at home, and that we ensure any foreign assistance authorized to be suspended under this bill is not detrimental to our security concerns.

I appreciate your leadership on this issue and your attention to streamlining the changes between this bill and the House-passed version from last Congress.

9 years, they might be not be deaf but they are slow of hearing I would say in a sense.

Could I interrupt to say that given the U.S. interest here, isn't that a priority for our country perhaps?

When Karen Bass and I met with Salva Kiir for the better part of 2 hours in Juba during the Memorial Day recess, we focused, I think like a laser beam, to quote somebody else years ago, on the idea that conflict is driving this famine.

I think it is a good marker that there is a deep commitment to global food security in general and to the act and its provisions in particular.

I believe passionately in trying to expand our resources, President Obama sent up a 20 percent cut in neglected tropical diseases.

I have never seen a budget that was not radically altered, starting with Ronald Reagan.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following new section: SEC. 725. TICK-BORNE DISEASES. Using…

This proposal in no way seems to reflect the serious challenges that the region faces.

I would like to better understand how you envision the decisions related to the global FMF fund.

I can't quite understand why we would pull this critical security assistance from countries desperately in need of it.

I have a hard time hearing the argument that this is about efficiency and saving money for the taxpayers.

Now is not the time to cut and run, now is the time to double down on Tunisia.

For every dollar of PA debt to Israel that we pay, that frees more funds for Abu Mazen to pay the salaries of terrorists.

I see no reason to continue to ask taxpayers to add to that pipeline until we can clear out that backlog.

I strongly suggest for State to adequately address Jordan's economic and security needs as it examines the new MOU.

Sometimes the difficulty with prevention is you can't quantify it in statistics, because if you prevented it you may never know what indeed was responsible for stopping it.

We deal with this terrible epidemic that we have that is not just domestic but worldwide in so many different ways.