Bill Keating

I do believe ISIL does derive proceeds from human trafficking.

There is $80 billion annually that comes directly from illicit tobacco trade.

So if we want to be as effective as we can be to increase stability throughout the world and be smart about our expenditures overseas, investing in women's participation in security at the local, national, and international levels is key.

The research is overwhelming in demonstrating that the active participation of women in resolving conflict leads to longer-term peace, and importantly, better outcomes for communities.

You cannot conduct diplomacy from inside a bunker.

At its core, diplomacy is about people.

If we don't pass the bill, we put the importance of this committee at risk.

If we fail to give diplomacy the tools and resources needed for success, we do so at our peril.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 72, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, after line 3, insert the following: ``(9) Developing, implementing, or expanding a prescription…

I do think we are going to have to look at northern Africa as well, because they are sourcing that as they are getting more pressure in Syria and Iraq as well.

I might comment that I am just days back from traveling through northern Africa in particular, and I must tell you that our efforts at striking and targeting oil reserves and the revenues they are getting from there has really been…

Countries must have an effective law on the books if we are to protect against future victims of this trade, and it is crucial that countries then enforce these laws so that perpetrators do not continue to target vulnerable individuals…

Amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3694 offered by the Honorable William Keating, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I have no more speakers and just will briefly close. Again, I want to thank my colleague from Texas. In a Congress that is often divided, we speak as one. In a country that is sometimes divided, today we speak as one. With the citizens of…

Investing in those issues will really be serving the taxpayers well and preventing things from occurring in the future

I think that indeed putting money into that, those resources, will put the fires out before they occur.

I think it is our view that this kind of engagement is critically important to building capacities that are needed.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad you are keeping track, and I hope you are not alone in keeping track of this issue.

If that is an area that you could provide the committee some more information on, we would be grateful for that.

I think it is just not an area of concern for safety in terms of terrorist activity.

The most effective things we can do in those areas before things incubate, before they metastasize is to look at what we can do as a country with our resources to intervene.

The work that we do in those areas where terrorism is likely to incubate, maybe just starting to incubate or moving out and metastasizing.

One thought I had when we talk about our coalition...is the hierarchy of interests in terms of ISIL with our coalition.